In this year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sergei Pryakhin had signed with the Calgary Flames; Aleksandr Mogilny was playing for the Buffalo Sabres; and the Red Wings had their eyes on five Russians, beginning with an attempt to draft Sergei Fedorov. Negotiations about a new Hockey team in San Jose were in progress. It was not difficult to guess why Yuri was interested in watching the best of Russian talent skate. But when Jack arrived, It was strategy for the evening's stakeout that occupied the discussion.

Jack had received a tip from an informant that a dealer of stolen antique books was in town. It was not well-known that the Music Box Book of Hours was concealed in a University archive; there might be a break-in at the Coach's Cottage that very night. Yuri would wait inside the cottage. In Presidents House, Jack would be lookout. Jon, the head of Huygens security, would be circling the campus with Drake, his work study intern, a former Marine, now in his last year of engineering at Huygens.

In the cottage, Yuri discovered the six pack of Brooklyn Brewery Lager that Griff had left for him -- as well as oven baked Russian ham, Swiss cheese, and rye bread. With a pinpoint flashlight, he was reading his notes on Revealing Conversations, an exhibition, which he knew would anger the Leningrad-based US consulate. Being a heavily-armed cultural attache in Russia was becoming boring.

The phone rang. "A man wearing a dark gray suit and a black turtleneck is approaching the cottage with a bunch of skeleton keys in his hand", Jack informed him.