<P> Frink reveals that the Wyndam - Matson Corporation has been supplying Childan with counterfeit antiques, which effectively works to blackmail Wyndam - Matson for money to finance Frink's new jewelry venture . Tagomi and Baynes meet, but Baynes repeatedly delays any real business as they await an expected third party from Japan . Suddenly, the public receives news of the death of the recently ill Chancellor of Germany, Martin Bormann . Childan tentatively, on consignment, takes some of Frink's "authentic" new metalwork and attempts to curry favor with a Japanese client, who surprisingly considers Frink's jewellery immensely spiritually alive . Juliana and Joe take a road trip to Denver, Colorado, and Joe impulsively decides they should go on a side - trip to meet the mysterious Hawthorne Abendsen, author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, who supposedly lives in a guarded fortress - like estate called the "High Castle" in Cheyenne, Wyoming . Soon, Joseph Goebbels is announced as the new German Chancellor . </P> <P> Baynes and Tagomi finally meet their Japanese contact as two agents of the Nazi secret police, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), close in to arrest Baynes, who is actually revealed to be a Nazi defector named Rudolf Wegener . Wegener warns his contact, a famed Japanese general, of Operation Dandelion, an upcoming Goebbels - approved plan for the Nazis to surprise - attack the Japanese Home Islands, in order to obliterate them in one swift stroke . As Frink is elsewhere exposed as a Jew and arrested, Wegener and Tagomi are confronted by the SD agents, both of whom Tagomi shoots dead with an antique American pistol . Back in Colorado, Joe abruptly changes his appearance and mannerisms before the trip to the High Castle, leading Juliana to deduce that he intends to actually murder Abendsen . Joe confirms this, revealing himself to be an undercover Swiss Nazi assassin . Juliana mortally wounds Joe and drives off to warn Abendsen of the threat to his life . </P> <P> Wegener flies back to Germany where upon landing learns that Reinhard Heydrich (a member of the anti-Dandelion faction) has launched a coup against Goebbels, possibly installing himself as Chancellor . Meanwhile, Tagomi remains shaken by the shootout and goes to Childan to sell back the gun he used in the fight; however, instead, sensing the energy from one of Frink's jewelery items, Tagomi impulsively buys it from Childan, before undergoing a spiritually intense ambiguous moment where he momentarily perceives an alternative - history version of San Francisco . Later, Tagomi on a whim forces the German authorities to release Frink, whom Tagomi has never met and does not know is the maker of the jewelery . Juliana soon has her own spiritual experience when she arrives in Cheyenne . There, she discovers that Abendsen now lives in a normal house with his family, having left behind the High Castle due to a change of outlook; he no longer preoccupies himself with thoughts that he might soon be assassinated . After dodging many of Juliana's questions about his inspiration for his novel, Abendsen finally confesses that he in fact used the I Ching to guide his writing of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy . Before leaving, Juliana infers then that "Truth" wrote the book in order to reveal the "Inner Truth" that Japan and Germany really lost World War II . </P> <P> Several characters in The Man in the High Castle read the popular novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, by Hawthorne Abendsen, whose title is assumed or supposed to have come from the Bible verse "The grasshopper shall be a burden" (Ecclesiastes 12: 5). Thus, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy constitutes a novel within a novel, wherein Abendsen writes of an alternative universe, where the Axis Powers lost World War II (1939--1947). For this reason, the Germans have banned the novel in the occupied U.S., but it is widely read in the Pacific, and its publication is legal in the neutral countries . </P>

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