 Dr. Amfortas dies in a home accident after being repeatedly terrorized by a possible evil doppelganger of himself (although he was terminally ill anyway, suffering from a disease he refused to treat so he could join his deceased wife).The final chapter of the novel, an epilogue, has Kinderman at a burger-bar with his faithful partner, Atkins.Kinderman explains to Atkins his thoughts and musings of the whole case and how it relates to his problem of the concept of evil.