People in the novel
Watchmaker. Opens the pawn shop at 8:15.
He will pay Mrs. Voss twelve marks for a ring worth six. He will write Grant on a ticket so a boy’s father is not Grady on paper. He does not want to be recruited. The book does not ask his permission.
Florist. Funerals, mostly.
She keeps bringing Lukas a clock that loses three minutes a day. She knew how to move people — papers, money, a bed — before Washington fell. There is a name she does not say easily.
Taken, June 1948. The city recorded no arrests.
Samuel told Lukas to smile, take the officer’s money, and remember the face. For later. Margaret could make panic feel rude. A woman asked every Thursday if they had Swiss clocks. They never did. She came anyway.
Sicherheitsdienst. One question.
Where is the ledger? He does not raise his voice. Then they are gone. A clerk suggests they relocated voluntarily.
Myers. Alex. Maria. A cellar.
The name means Voice of Liberty. It started as a radio phrase. They are already bleeding from betrayal when Lukas finds them.