Overview
The manumits keep countless secrets, with their leader's identity ranking among the best kept. Yet after considerable effort Coen tracked him down — though Crake would likely claim he allowed himself to be found.
And for all his pretence, Crake seems desperate. He runs a disciplined outfit, but a foundering one, its people outnumbered and hunted without mercy… Coen could aid them, and something tells him Crake already knows it.