26 June, 4:00 PM, “The Czernograd Gazette” newsroom “...The police are continuing their investigations and are expected to issue a...

26 June, 12:00 PM, Czernograd, Old Market Square Jake did not tell Marina that someone got into his hotel room the previous night and...

26 June, 10:00 AM, Czernograd, Police Station Number 5 Marina waited for him downstairs in the lobby at 10 o’clock as agreed, reading a...

26 June, 7:05 AM, Czernograd, the Rawicz district The phone kept ringing and Igor Svoboda, suspended somewhere in the netherworld between...

25 June, 7:00 PM, Czernograd, the Old Town “I would recommend pracuszki,” she said. “It’s a local speciality, made from sheep liver and...

25 June, 6:00 PM, Czernograd, Hotel Casino The hotel was a decent old building, renovated sometime recently to take it up to the standard...

25 June, 2:30 PM, Czernograd International Airport The sky over Czernograd was the colour of a dirty linen tablecloth when Jake finally...

25 June, 2:10 PM, Czernograd International Airport “What is in the container?” Jake’s suitcase was lying open, like a gutted whale, its...

25 June, 1:40 PM, over eastern Slovakia The little boy sitting behind him kept kicking the back of his seat. Jake was having problems...

25 June, 2:40 PM, Czernograd International Airport Jake Voynich knew this was a bad start to his homecoming when within the space of half...

25 March 1979, New York, Midtown Manhattan He remembered that night very clearly, years, decades later, as if it was a particularly vivid...