The Golden Gate: A Novel

Sullivan questions Eliana at a San Francisco union hall. He has spoken to the man at the Scottish Rite Auditorium whom Isabella directed him to, and the man claimed that Eliana and Sal were in a romantic relationship. Eliana reveals her resentment toward Nicole, saying that she finds her activism condescending. She admits to using Nicole for her money. However, Eliana denies being romantically attached to Sal. 

Sullivan receives a call from his partner, Tankersley, about an urgent issue at the hotel. At the hotel, manager George Pulaski explains that eight missing laundry workers who previously identified as Chinese were actually Japanese who were avoiding the forced internment of Japanese people on the West Coast. A map with the Lawrence Radiation Lab circled is found in their lockers, and the missing workers are suspected of being Japanese spies. The hotel’s personnel manager says that the youngest of the workers claimed to come down with appendicitis when they were close to being exposed as Japanese. Two blonde women came and picked her up from the hotel—this was on the night when Wilkinson was shot. The other Japanese workers disappeared soon after. He reveals that Cassie was the sole reference for all these workers.