In Chapter Three, a series of events foreshadow the end of Khristo's happy existence in Paris. A new roomer at the boarding house, a botched resistance attempt against the Soviets, and a meeting with Goldman the NKVD officer, Khristo's own mocking of a British agent combine, and result in the kidnapping of Aleksandra, the murder of the headwaiter and a failed attempt to flee the city. Khristo's meeting with Faye just before his incarceration brings the American woman back into the plot, and this is a red herring for the reader for future events.
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