The operation to save Yaneba's uncle is a success. It turns out that Hemingway is working with the Americans, and so it is safe to smuggle the condemned man out of Cuba on the Pilar. A few years later, Julio Antonio is trying to launch a music career, but the government has checked him. No new soloists, as that could create a popular figure which would eclipse Castro's popularity. To get around it, he creates a musical group, Las Gatos Negros, and for a while they have great success-until the government shuts that down as well. A few years later, he has been extracted from Cuba to the United States, only to discover from O'Brien that his psychic abilities qualify him to be trained at the Montauk Project in Long Island, New York. After graduating from the program in 1980, he soon discovers that the director of the program there leads a Satanic cult operating out of the town of Montauk, a sickening one that as part of their rituals consume the flesh of human babies. He is able to smash the cult, one of his team killing the leader, but the woman who appears to be the second in command escapes. As she never saw Dr. del Marmol clearly, he decides to discover her identity and infiltrate her ring. He is lured away from this mission, captured, and subjected to the same machine he had seen tested in Cuba twenty years earlier-now portable, but his training enables him to block it. In the process of hunting down members of this cult, he also encounters several Chinese Communist Party plots to conduct biological warfare on the world using viruses. The spy at the center of this plot, Yoko de Coco, gets confronted by Dr. del Marmol.