D: Heavy Water

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D, subtitled Heavy Water, is the second book of the Bomblight Series, following Polostan (2024).

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People

Aurora
(b2p2s10) The real name of Katya, a member of the female machine gunner group that plays polo against Owen near Moscow. Asks Owen to help her leave the country. Owen agrees. (b2p2s11) Almost has sex with Owen who promises to write her.
Beria
(b2p2s12) First Secretary of Transcaucasian Communist Party traveling by train to Sochi to host Joseph Stalin. Questions Owen's travel plans.
Einar
(b2p0s0) An aged Norwegian welder.
Elektron Fizmatov
(b2p1s2) Scientist. Younger brother of Proton.
Gus
(b2p2s20) Introduces himself to Owen as Berzelius Gustav “Gus” Brandt.
Irina
(b2p2s11) Owenʼs liason for the state travel agency Intourist. Hesitantly facilitates his travel bookings south towards Turkey, across the Caucasus Mountains, and then along the Tigris past Baghdad towards the Persian Gulf.
Jack
(b2p3s27) A large patron of The Mines of Ophir. (b2p3s29) Stops and helps capture Razors who robbed Owen. (b2p3s32) Reveals himself to be who Owen was searching for and the owner of the ring: Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl of Berkshire. Received the ring from Owen.
Katya
See Aurora. (b2p2s10)
Lek
Nickname of Elektron Fizmatov.
Owen
(b2p1s1) A traveling journalist. (b2p1s2) Witnesses the launch of a high altitude balloon near Moscow. (b2p2s6) ordered by Rupert to find the Earl of Suffolk in Australia.
Proton Fizmatov
(b2p1s2) Is one of three aeronauts who man a high altitude balloon gondola to measure cosmic rays. (b2p1s4) Remains of their wolf-eaten corpse is found by Owen and other horseriders.
Rocksborough, Viscount
Owen's traveling journalist rival.
Stalin
(b2p2s12) Rides a train in the same passenger carriage as Owen. Flies away at an unscheduled stop at a military base.
Swede, the
See Gus.

Places

Australia
(b2p2s6) Where the Earl of Suffolk may be.
Ophir, Mines of
(b2p2s20) Destination of Gus. Where his order of alchemists is located. Presumably Ophir, New South Wales.
Sydney
(b2p3s23) Owen arrives here in search of the 20th Earl of Suffolk.

Things

balloon
(p1s2) A scientific vessel launched from near Moscow to measure cosmic rays from high altitude. (p1s4) crashes east of Moscow. All 3 aeronauts perish, including Proton.
ring, signet
(b2p2s17) A ring owned by the Lord of Suffolk killed at the Battle of Istabulat, looted by locals, and sold to Owen for 100 pounds sterling by a local cripple. (b2p3s32) Given by Owen to Jack.

Narrative

With the exception of the Prologue, the point of view is that of Owen. Sections were not numbered in the original text.

Part 1

D: Heavy Water, Part 1, Scene 0-4 summaries
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p0s0 Prologue. POV: Einar, an aged and experienced Norwegian welder at his welding shop in Norway. Einar receives a commission to fabricate metal water containers for a taciturn Frenchman, a curious Swede, and a man and a woman who do not speak his language. Einar is asked to create and weld with his own welding rods made from scratch to avoid Cadmium and Boron impurities. The Swede explains they need to carry 167 L of heavy water weighing 185 kg. Dinar, _, _, Aurora, Owen
p1s1 POV Owen. Owen's background as an inheritor of modest wealth needing to supplant his income with work as a traveling journalist. Motivation to one-up a rival justifying his decision to travel to Moscow. Owen
p1s2 POV: Owen watching an Academician cut glass in an aerodrome hangar in Kuntsevo, 50km West of Moscow. Owen calls himself Neutron to the scientists he has recently met named Proton and Elektron. Owen contemplates the difficult task of pleasing British readership and absurdities of Soviet culture. Owen anticipated a balloon launch. Owen observed the balloon fabric and gondola being examined. Despite supervision under Colonel Epaulets, Owen climbs into the gondola to assist Proton. Owen and a NYT reporter are shown a cloud chamber; scientists will measure cosmic rays above Earth's atmosphere from the balloon gondola. The balloon launches. Owen catches a ride with Elektron in the convoy to retrieve the gondola where it lands. Owen's map curiosity causes a detour to view a model of the improbable Palace of the Soviets. Owen scans the construction site of the ambitious palace, noting significant geotechnical challenges. Owen, Proton, Elektron, Ivan, Svetlana
p1s3 POV: Owen, East of Moscow. Owen chats with Elektron, aware that Epaulets does not approve of free communication. Owen
p1s4 POV: Owen, ~400 km east of Moscow. Owen wakes and is given a horse by Zhukov to ride and rifle to bear as the Conveyance leaves roads and enters a forest. Owen sees Colonel Epaulets riding incorrectly. Owen rides ahead, enjoying the sight and sounds. Owen spots streams of people in the distance carrying away items from something. Owen finds local peasants hurriedly carrying away looted rubberized cotton. Owen witnesses his first murder as other cavalry riders sabre and shoot a fleeing peasant. Owen and other riders search for the missing gondola. A reconnaissance plane indicates a direction. Owen finds the gondola remains that resemble a crushed can of tomato paste. Owen shoots a wolf carrying away Proton's white-clothed arm. Owen, Epaulets, Zhukov

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D: Heavy Water, Part 2, Scene 5-22 summaries
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p2s5 POV: Owen on Moscow following the balloon crash. Owen is kept fed and fucked by State officials and women. Other journalists envy Owen's financial independence and the resulting frankness he is able to indulge in to report intelligently about conditions in the Soviet Union. Owen
p2s6 POV: Owen. Owen notices Epaulets is replaced by a Serov. Serov passes Owen a telegram from Owen's editor, Rupert, ordering him to travel to Australia to find the Earl of Suffolk. Owen, Serov
p2s7 Owen meets with the late Proton's mother and Elektron. The mother requests food. Owen, Elektron
p2s8 Owen attends the stage funeral of Proton. Owen, Elektron.
p2s9 POV: Owen several days after the funeral. Owen plays polo with men under Voroshilov and Zhukov. The Cossacks are less skilled than Voroshilov's strategists. Owen.
p2s10 Owen plays polo with a group of female machine gunners. Women flirt with Owen. Owen meets a redhead calling herself Katya. Owen and Katya fiercely compete. Owen is attracted to Katya. Katya reveals she was sent by the OGPU to seduce him; she says her name is Aurora. Aurora asks he keep calling her Katya and pretend he is in love with her. Owen agrees but tells her he is being sent to Australia. Aurora asks him to send her letters so that the OGPU may send her to him. Owen agrees. Owen, Aurora
p2s11 Owen arranges with difficulty transport south along the Tigris; the woman receiving his transport request over telephone is confused and leaks that she knows his final destination is Australia. Owen insists, using his traveling journalist excuse. Owen dines and drinks with the machine gunner women. Owen takes Aurora to his room for sex. Owen sees the OGPU had dyed her hair red to suit his tastes. Owens erection grows soft. Knowing that they are under audio surveillance, Owen and Aurora stage an act pretending to part ways while scheming using written notes. Owen genuinely asks Aurora to come with him to Australia. Aurora refuses verbally but thanks him non-verbally. Owen, Aurora
p2s12 Owen takes a train south. He is confronted by First Secretary of Transcaucasian Communist Party, Lavrentiy Beria, who, through a translator, questions Owen's travel plans, hinting the NKVD (previously OGPU) knows about Owen's father's grave near Iraq. Owen is disconcerted. Owen noticed one of his fellow passengers is Joseph Stalin who has the train make an unscheduled stop at a military base and is promptly flown off, surprising even Beria. They watch as Stalin boards a plane and flies away. Owen, Beria, Stalin
p2s13 POV: Owen the next day in Trebizond. Owen travels from Trebizond thriugh eastern Turkey to northern Mesopotamia, arriving in spring. Owen travels with a caravan of tobacconists across the flood plains near the Tigris. Oh and descends down one morning to shave at the riverbank. Owen finds looted corpses. Owen
p2s14 POV: Owen in Nusaybin. Owen parts ways with the tobacconists. Owen reviews books indirectly mentioning his father's death from Rupert, his editor. Owen travels in a hired Rolls-Royce up the hills between the Tigris and Euphrates. Owen rides with an Egyptian and a Swede. Owen shares that he is traveling towards Istabulat. They discuss some literature such as “Sheppey” and “Appointment in Samarra”. Owen, an egyptian, a swede
p2s15 Owen asks to be let off early before. Samara. Owen books a hotel nearby. Owen examines maps and explores the local area finding ancient ruins to locate where his father has died and where he was buried. Owen
p2s16 Owen in Istabulat. Owen hires a guide who in turn summons an entourage to company Owen to as he visits the battlefield where his father died. A history of the Battle of Istabulat (1917-04). By mid-afternoon Owen finds the dimples where his father's grave has been, with the help of an old one-eyed cripple. Owen composes a letter to his mother filled with embellishments and inaccuracies but does include a real poppy from the local area. Owen
p2s17 POV Owen at a train station. Owen sees the Egyptian and the Sweden are now accompanied by a Jew. The one-eyed cripple appears and produces the signet ring of the Earl of Suffolk who had been killed at the Battle of Istabulat. Owen pays 100 British pounds via a special bank note, mediated by the Jew. Owen, the egyptian, the swede, the jew
p2s18 Owen Egyptian the sweet and the Jew bore the train and ride in the same carriage. Owen gives the 100 lb banknotes to the Swede who pockets it. They are generally dismissive of Owen. They ride the train to Baghdad. Ibid
p2s19 Owen on a boat traveling from Baghdad to Bombay. Owen departs Baghdad writing letters to acquaintances apologizing for his departure without meeting them. Owen takes a boat to Bombay. Owen writes to Katya careful not to use her Aurora name. Owen repeats his desire to meet up with Katya again. Owen
p2s20 Owen on the Orpheus, a steamer bound for Australia. Owen speaks with Gus the Swede. Gus describes himself as an alchemist hunter of new elements. Gus is traveling to the Mines of Ophir. Owen, Gus
p2s21 Owen on the Orpheus. Owen reviews the background of Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl of Berkshire. Howard was rejected by school and military and apparently had an interest in arson. Owen
p2s22 POV: Owen on the Orpheus. Owen spits the white sails of a clipper gaining on the steamer. Owen speculates with a crew member that it may be the Mount Stewart?. Owen imagines parallel narrative in which he and Aurora make the journey through istanbula Baghdad. In order to distract himself from thinking about conversations with an imaginary girlfriend, Owen joins others for dinner. Commentary on personalities of people from Australian culture. Despite dropping hints, Owen finds no clues to Suffolk's whereabouts. Owen

Part 3

D: Heavy Water, Part 3, Scene 5-22 summaries
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p3s23 POV: Owen in Sydney in 1934-04. Owen settles in at the hotel Australia. Owen reviews newspapers for for clues on to suffix whereabouts. Owen attends a social event for more clues and finds nothing. Owen identifies a lead in a banker named Jameson who likely facilitated Suffolk's initial liquidity on arrival to Australia. Owen reads a review in the newspaper about a book his younger brother Nigel wrote containing stories resembling those Owen shared with him and their mother. Owen
p3s24 Owen meets with the banker Jameson. Jameson brings up Owens finances saying that the reply from owens's bank was ambiguous. Owen concludes that His inheritance from his father is now depleted. Owen visits the WC. Owen returns to Jameson who suggests that Owen spend time with sheep if he is to have luck locating Suffolk. Owen, Jameson
p3s25 Owen relocates to meager accommodations. A summary of recent changes in Sydney harbor. The recent construction of a bridge. Owen
p3s26 Owen wakes to the sound of sheep. Owen explores the area. Owen sees a aged clipper. Owen finds a bar named the Mines of Ophir in which Gus is known. Owen
p3s27 Owen spends several days frequenting the minds of ophir bar. Owen encounters Gus staying above the bar. Owen and other bar patrons regularly visit the Clipper Sophia that is being dismantled nearby. Owen gets to know Jack bar patron who is large and curious. Owen explains Maritime details to the jackaroos. Gus mentions the owner of the minds of ophir. Both the real minds and the bar named after them is in the Solomon Islands. Owen, Gus, Jack
p3s28 The Mines of Ophir barkeep, Sean, warns Owen that the ring he is carrying is obviously showing in pants and likely to get stolen soon. Owen is warned of razor-wielding Razors. Owen thinks himself streetwise. Owen, Sean
p3s29 POV: Owen barhopping his jackaroo mates. Owen is accosted, garrotted, and shorn of his pants by two Razors. Owen makes noise and gets Jack's attention. Jack aims a revolver on each Razor as the criminals are tackled by his mates. The enormity of the violation of handgun law dwarfing the thievery. Owen, Jack, and the rest of the party flee the scene.
p3s30 Jack carries Owen to Gus's room above the mines of orphir. Gus disinfects Owen's wounds with alcohol and iodine. Gus shows Jack and Owen radium. Gus explains his pursuit of discovering new elements. Oh and eventually figures out that Jack has been asking him if he is a family member related to the the coat of arms on the ring that Jack recovered from the thieves. Jack explains that he knows and worked with a person in Cunnamulla who has clothing with that coat of arms decorating his effects. Owen concludes that Jack knows the Earl of Suffolk. Jack is hesitant to put Owen, a journalist, into contact with Howard. Owen convinces Jack who agrees to lead Owen after a funeral. Owen, Gus, Jack
p3s31 Owen purchases a Model A for transport. Owen contemplates for the first time fraud against his employer in response to his tentative conclusion that his bank assets are depleted. Owen
p3s32 Owen climbing to the naval Observatory in 1934. Owen finds Jack picnicking near the Observatory, watching an unusual number of ships idling in the harbor. Owen sees the Sophia being tugged away. Owen realizes the funeral is that of the Sophia. Owen and Jack see a wedding of an army lieutenant. Owen foresees war in the lieutenant's future. Owen says he imagines his editor sent for Suffolk to serve his duty in the upcoming war. Jack drops his accent and reveals himself to be Lord Suffolk. Owen gives Suffolk the ring. Owen, Jack

Part 4

D: Heavy Water, Part 4, Scene 33-57 summaries
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p4s33 POV: Owen between Carcassonne and the Spanish Border on 1936-07-18. Owen has a dream of seeing fireworks with a former acquaintance who was a veteran of a war. The veteran's PTSD reaction to firework mortar rounds. A description of magnesium flares used in the war. Oh in wakes and finds himself in a train between France in Spain. Owen recalls a night of drinking with Lord Suffolk and his new wife. Owen dresses. Owen
p4s34 Owen waiting at a platform. Owen observes athletes attending the Popular Olympiad in Barcelona. Owen meets the athlete Zebulon Singletary (“Lon”), a riveter from Mobile, Alabama. Owens observations of the athletes being perpetually surprised as they the express train to Barcelona. Oh I noticed as many armed youth Manning checkpoints. Owen finds for anarchists rummaging through his luggage in search of camera feeling to destroy. Owen talks to a woman anarchist named Adrià who explains that photographs of anarchist s taken by tourists are later developed and eventually find their way into the hands of authorities who then murdered sit anarchists in their sleep. She mistakes Owen for his younger brother since her own younger brother enjoys Nigel's books. She is surprised by Owen's naivete at the anarchists activities in Barcelona. Owen, Lon
p4s35 Owen, on a stopped Express train half an hour before Barcelona. Owen and other passengers wait for their train to depart. Anarchists loading themselves onto nearby trucks. Adrià invites Owen to board a truck with her. Owen decides to join her. Oh and regrets that he will lose his luggage on the train first class carriage but decides to remain with Adria and make friends with the other anarchists by distributing cigarettes. Owen, Adrià
p4s36 Owen in an anarchist lorrie in Barcelona. Owen disembarks with the other anarchists a automotive garage. Oncs other trucks being equipped with sandbags and metal plates. Adria introduces Owen to Miqel. Owen is driven a few hundred meters short of hotel colon and given instructions for a later Meetup by a serious Adria. Oh and checks into the hotel and a bellhop is sent to retrieve his luggage from the train station. Owen, addià, Miqel.
p4s37 Owen in the Hotel Colón the same day. Owen is interrupted while having a drink at the hotel bar when a Rogelio Díaz interrupts him, asking if he is covering politics or sports. Owen adroitly pretends to care only for the Popular Olympics while showing disdain for the Anarchists and Communists. Díaz mistakes Owen for his novelist younger brother. Owen's bags arrive at the hotel. Owen, Rogelio Díaz
p4s38 Owen in the Hotel Colón. Owen reflects on his tight finances. Income from his late father's estate has been sharply. Curtailed. Owen cannot afford to purchase all new clothes and make stew with repairs to his existing set. Owen braids himself for his impulsiveness with leaving his luggage on the train to ride with the anarchists, even though he recovered it in the end. Owen
p4s39 Owen in Barcelona. Owen walks along the Rambla and the Diagonal. Owen ascends Montjuïc to see an orchestra rehearsing at the Popular Olympics site. The orchestra begins playing Beethoven's 9th. Owen continues to ascend Montjuïc towards a castle. Owen
p4s40 Owen on Mount Juliet. Owen climbs to to the fortress atop Montjuïc and looks down below at Barcelona and its port. Owen, here's the eruption of gunfire down below Owen is taken into custody by armed Catalán-speaking militia men. Owen
p4s41 Owen at Montjuïc in the custody of Comrade Giralt Lloveras. Giralt Lloveras tells Owen in French that he had been mistaken for an enemy of the proliteriat. Giralt knew exactly who Owen was. Giralt explains to Owen the the various acronyms of anarchists and Communists in Barcelona. Giralt explains that the initiator of hostilities was not the anarchist breaking into armories near the port, but Franco who Communists had learned via radio was making strategic moves far away to capture Barcelona. Owen asks why the Communists are burning churches in Spain. Giralt explains that the Soviet steamer that arrived just recently was unrelated to the conflict having departed weeks ago carrying athletes for the popular Olympics, specifically equestrian polo players. Giralt invites Owen to see a spectacle of journalistic interest. Owen, Giralt
p4s42 Owen at the Montjuïc amphitheatre watching the Popular Olympics orchestral rehearsal. Owen watches the orchestra finish the third movement. An etourage of bourgeois officials enters and the announcement is made that the popular Olympics is canceled due to civil war.. The orchestra continues to play the fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th. Owen watches Soviet female athletes enter the arena, Aurora among them. Owen runs towards Aurora and trips. Owen
p4s43 Owen injured lying on the floor of the arena. Owen explains himself to Gerald. Owen asks to be put into contact with women's polo team but Gerald is unsympathetic. Gerald tells Owen that he expects him to cover his faction'sside of the conflict Owen's readership. Owen, Giralt
p4s44 Owen with Giralt in Barcelona. Geralt gives Owen a tour of an anarchist bomb factory. A description of building grenades from fuses, dynamite, and metal fasteners. Giralt corrects Owen's political terminology for the Anarchists. The next stop is near the Polo club. Owen, Giralt
p4s45 Owen with Gerald in Barcelona. Gerald takes Owen on a drive throughout Barcelona making mini stops. Geralt's eventually takes Owen towards the polo club. Owen, Gerard
p4s46 Oh, I'm riding with Gerald in an automobile carrying anarchist bombs along the diagonal in Barcelona. Owen studies a map and identifies a point of interest for himself and leaves the vehicle. Owen, Giralt
p4s47 Owen in Barcelona outside the rcpb. Owen walks around the border of the rcpb, the polo club, in search of a way in. Owen hops offense and enters a stable. Owen finds Katya and other Russian speaking women. A storage unit falls and machine gun ammunition spills onto the ground. Owen, Aurora
p4s48 Owen in th RCPB stable. Owen proves himself to Veronica who drops her pistol aim. Aurora and Owen greet each other privately with a tumble in the hay. Owen, Veronica, Aurora
p4s49 Owen in the RCPB stable. The Soviet machine Gunner women Converse about their plans for tomorrow. Owen and Aurora sleep in their own alcove. Owen, Aurora
p4s50 Owen in the rcpb be stable at 4:00 a.m.. Owen is awoken by factory whistles and gunshots. Aurora has left. Owen finds breakfast and helps himself to riding gear. Aurora returns on horseback. Owen, Aurora, Veronica and the others ride out to reconoiter with leaders of various revolutionaries in Barcelona. Aurora's cynical predictions for the horses and the less useful revolutionaries. Owen, Aurora
p4s51 Owen on the back of Rurik riding through Barcelona with Aurora and company. Aurora and Owen dismount and explain themselves to a street barricade and gain passage through. Owen, Aurora
p4s52 Owen riding through Barcelona with Aurora. They get sidetracked from the Plaça de Catalunya by street fighting. They take cover from sniper fire from a church bell tower which is set alight. The bell of the burning church tolls noon as Owen watches a red neckerchiefed revolutionary shoots fleeing priests one after another Owen, Aurora
p4s53 Owen suffers trauma from seeing the murder of the priests. Owen and Aurora ride to the Parc de la Ciutadella. Owen sees a giraffe. Owen takes a nap. Owen and Aurora leave their horses and go to see a military force approaching from the east. Revolutionaries deploy newspaper rolls to impede progress of the military unit. Several artillery units appear. The military unit defects to the revolutionaries, donning armbands. Owen, Aurora
p4s54 Owen mentions that Aurora's Soviet bosses must be pleased by the surrender of the artillery unit. Aurora is not pleased by the comment. Owen, Aurora
p4s55 Owen and Aurora in Barcelona. Owen and Aurora make their way towards the Plaça de Catalunya. They arrive and meet up with Adrià. Owen introduces Adrià to Aurora. They witness the siege of a telephone exchange. That anarchist Miqel is attacking. Lories equipped with sandbags and carrying armed anarchists are repelled by the defenders. Many Anarchists die. Veronika is disgusted by the incompetence. Owen, Aurora, Adrià, Veronika
p4s56 The Civil Guard take over the siege of the telephone exchange. Owen and Aurora ride to the Hotel Colón. They find the hotel under siege by revolutionary forces and popular Olympic athletes. The athletes throw bombs at the hotel, one of which, thrown by shotputter Lon Singletary, enters Owen's hotel room. Owen, Aurora, Lon
p4s57 Owen and Aurora in Barcelona. A Franco general flies in to a fortress but is captured and declares surrender to all of Franco's forces in Barcelona. A single holdout fortress called Drassanes resists surrender. Owen and Aurora join the siege against the fortress. Owen with his binoculars is assigned lookout dity. Owen wakes to piss and shit. Owen sees Miqel launch a predawn attack that gets most of his forces killed. Veronika kills Miqel in front of Giralt who is unsurprised. Owen, Aurora, Veronika, Miqel, Giralt

Part 5

D: Heavy Water, Part 5, Scene 58-76 summaries
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p5s58 1938-12 in Northern Catalonia. Owen and Aurora and their military unit convert into refugees after suffering a defeat at Franco's forces. Owen and Aurora eventually find themselves by themselves and seek shelter beneath a fruit tree. They are woken by nationalist rearguard forces who take them prisoner. Owen, Aurora
p5s59 Owen and Aurora are prisoners of war kept in a bull corral. Various prisoners are taken off for executions. Owen's name is eventually called. Owen asks that his wife, Elaine Elizabeth Schumacher, accompany him. Owen and Aurora are taking to dinner.
p5s60 Owen and Aurora are flown by plane across the Pyrenees into France. Upon landing at a rural airstrip butler come to greet them is a gas at their lack of luggage. Owen, Aurora
p5s61 Owen and Aurora are received at an aristocratic mansion. Owen attempts to puzzle out which faction of car list has summoned them. Owen, Aurora
p5s62 Aurora and Owen are assigned a guest suite. They conclude their host is a member of the Society of the Exterminating Angel. They burn their clothes.
p5s63 Owen and Aurora attend a dinner party with wolf and company. They stick to their story that they were traveling and overcome by the Swift advance of nationalist forces in Spain. Owen receives a telegram from Paris and news that he and Aurora will depart the next day.
p5s64 Owen meets Lord Suffolk as soon as they arrive at the airstrip. Owen explains to Suffolk the subterfuge. After some time in the mechanical troubles. Lord Suffolk, Owen and Aurora depart for Paris.
p5s65 Owen, Aurora, Suffolk, and Mimi on a plane to Paris. Owen wakes from a nap. Owen explains to Suffolk that the three women that Suffolk has known Owen to Pansy over the years have been the same woman.
p5s66 Owen speaks with Renshaw. A summary of Owen's time traveling between Paris and Barcelona throughout the Spanish civil war to cover the conflict for his newspaper and to fight alongside Aurora. Owens dwindling finances. Owen and Aurora attend dinner parties with Lord Suffolk. Owen eventually realizes that Lord Suffolk is serving his country as a spy.
p5s67 Owen explains what he knows about the Condor Legion to renshaw. Owen explains that wolf developed tactics that he was able to iterate upon using the Spanish civil war as practice. Owen mentions in great technical detail. Benefits of radio equipped fighters. Oh in notes, the Royal Air Force did not benefit from practice fighting during the war. Owen, renshaw
p5s68 Owen and Aurora take a walk. A summary of fashion trends in Paris throughout the course of the war. Aurora tells Owen that renshaw is interviewing him for an intelligence position as a spy. Owen mentions that aurora's language skills and fighting abilities may also be useful to the intelligence organization. Aurora mentions that she already has been recruited.
p5s69 Owen in in a London pub meeting privately with renshaw. Rayshaw gives Owen a diplomatic passport and assigns him, under the cover of being a cultural attache, to seek out Spanish civil war refugees to gather intelligence on German and Italian military intelligence. Brenshaw also requests that Owen record all that he can remember about tactics during the Spanish civil war. Owen, renshaw
p5s70 Owen meets with his brothers Ronald and Nigel as well as his mother to discuss finances of the family. Owen is surprised to learn that Nigel is now financially supporting their mother with the proceeds of his novels filled with Owen's stories. Owen, Ronald, Nigel, Owen's mother, Nigel's wife
p5s71 Owen in Place Vendôme, Paris, in 1939-10.
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D: Heavy Water, Part 6, Scene 77-95 summaries
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Part 7

D: Heavy Water, Part 7, Scene 96-120 summaries
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References

  1. ↑ “Neal Stephenson - TICKETED EVENT”. (2026). powells.com. Accessed 2026-10-15. “Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing; 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. Beaverton, OR 97005; Wednesday, October 14th 2026, 7:00 PM.”

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