Daly City

Daly City enters the novel through an apartment that Rob Frazer had helped Juan and Yvonne settle in. The location matters less as a developed setting than as a point in the chain of acquaintances through which investigators traced the fugitives: Rob inadvertently led his surveillants to the apartment, while himself escaping criminal charges.

The Apartment and Its Connections

The apartment is identified as the place in Daly City where Rob had helped Juan and Yvonne establish themselves. The account gives no further description of the building or neighborhood, but its place in the plot is precise: it connects Rob to two members of the revolutionary group who were later captured. The apartment’s significance lies in that relationship, not in any account of its daily life.

The Investigation Reaches Daly City

The investigative trail began with Jenny’s fingerprints in newsprint and her outstanding charges. From there, agents followed William’s prison visitors’ list to Sandy and Tom Milner. The trail then divided, leading toward Jenny and Pauline on one branch and toward Rob on the other. Rob, like Sandy and Tom, escaped being charged, but his movements had brought surveillants to the Daly City apartment where he had helped Juan and Yvonne settle.

A Node in a Wider Network

The Daly City apartment makes visible how the group’s relationships could function both as support and as exposure. Rob’s assistance connected him to Juan and Yvonne; the same connection, followed by investigators, helped turn a loose network of acquaintances into a traceable route. Earlier, Rob—then identified to a journalist as Joe Smith—had described being questioned by FBI agents after they ambushed him at a farmhouse associated with a friend he hoped to find. That encounter is distinct from the later surveillance leading to Daly City, but together the episodes show how familiar contacts and repeated investigations narrowed the fugitives’ space for concealment.