Interpol

Interpol’s role in the narrative is shown at the point where Evan Michaels is identified and arrested in Switzerland: an officer bearing its badge joins the customs agent after a file of photographs connects Evan to the gallery. The scene establishes the organization’s presence in a cross-border pursuit, but does not describe its structure or wider operations.

Identification and Arrest

At a Swiss customs desk, Evan says that his business in Switzerland is banking. The customs agent glances at the dragon and then fixes his attention on Evan’s new tattoo before calling over a detective. The approaching officer wears a brown uniform with a brass Interpol badge and carries a file.

The file contains black-and-white images of Evan inside the gallery: first hiding, then getting to his feet, and finally running toward the back door. The photographs make his presence there legible to the officers, and the tattoo is visible in each image. When the customs agent cuffs him, Evan pulls away; the Interpol agent intervenes and secures the arrest.

Role and Limits in the Narrative

Interpol is represented through this brief encounter rather than through an account of the organization’s policies or chain of command. Its agent’s file supplies the visual evidence that connects Evan to the gallery, while the visible badge marks the officer as part of an organization operating beyond a single national setting. The episode shows the practical consequence of that identification: Evan is detained before he can leave Switzerland.

The later legal proceedings are presented as distinct from the arrest. Evan describes a brief trial in a Tunis city jail, where he receives a twenty-five-year sentence, and learns that he was also tried in absentia in Rome and given another twenty-five years, to run consecutively, for refusing to cooperate in recovering The Rendezvous. The account does not say that Interpol conducted either trial or imposed either sentence.