The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Ever since the outbreak of the war in 1983, violent events are followed by government-mandated curfews. Curfews allow the government to do at night what they can’t do in front of witnesses during the day. Maali watches as the police and Major Raja oversee the deposit of bodies at the crematorium.

DD tells his father that he quit his environmental advocacy firm and took a job with the United Nations. DD wants to make a difference in Sri Lanka, but his father thinks he is foolish.

Jaki again reviews what she knows of the marked phone numbers in Maali’s address book. She figured out that the Ace of Diamonds is Jonny Gilhooley. She wonders about Robert Sudworth of the AP, but DD thinks it’s Andy who works for the AP, not Sudworth. Stanley knows a representative from the arms dealer, Lockheed Systems, named Robert Sudworth.

The Queen of Spades is Elsa. Stanley did some research on Elsa and discovered that Kugarajah is linked to both the LTTE and the Indian Secret Service. CNTR is funded by Canada, Norway, and the US Fund for Peace.

They don’t yet know whose number is marked with the Jack of Hearts.