ch. 1 Carnevous carnival

Bobby Pendragon and Vo Spader, the Traveler from Cloral, arrive on First Earth ( New York City, 1937) shortly after the death of Bobby's uncle, Press Tilton, by bullets from gangsters that Saint Dane has hired. They meet the First Earth Traveler, a bell captain at the Manhattan Tower Hotel named Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke. Bobby and Spader become employed as bellhops there, and investigate the ties between First Earth's Turning Point, rival crime godfathers Max Rose and Winn Farrow, and the Nazi party.