11.   Before any dead drops are made, the dance of espionage proceeds by what looks like chance encounter and signals as inconspicuous as a smashed crayon.

12.   A chance encounter that changes a life.

13.   A chance encounter with a priest in a small Catholic church landed her a job as a reporter for The Catholic Week.

14.   A chance encounter with a spunky friend lifts her out of her provincial backwater and into a more interesting life.

15.   A chance encounter later in the day seemed to hammer home the point.

16.   A chance encounter radically changes the lives of a married science writer and a young man who develops an erotic religious fixation on him.

17.   A chance encounter with a great man may echo down through the routine days of an ordinary man.

18.   A chance encounter brought Capotorto together with Vittorio Lattanzi, a successful restaurateur.

19.   A chance encounter of two strangers in a park, followed by a serendipitous discovery of the photo in a pile of discarded newspapers?

20.   A chance encounter signals a new chapter.