In big city of New York. But I did not like it. Too many people. Remind me of Moscow, only in Moscow people either stay home or go to bar. They do not, how you say, wander around. You wander around there, you get shot or arrested. Just listen. Its the same one? He found a stool and sat against the wall, the shelving hiding him.Carol, he said, “go be seen on the floor. If anyone asks you where Frances is, direct them down to the morgue. She died of her injuries. Of course I would, she said. But there was also something else. You doing okay? he asked. Too late, Gunderson said. The feller faxed me the paperwork, and I sent it to him. Yeah, I remember you saying that to me. The only baby left to you. What do we do now? Get out, Henry said as I approached the bar. Nice airplane, Lance said. Afterwards, Murfin, Inch and I had a drink in a small bar not too far from police headquarters. I let Inch buy because he probably was still charging me $100 an hour for the privilege of drinking in his company. While we waited for the drinks I excused myself and went back to the rear of the bar where the pay phone was. I clamped my hand on his bony shoulder and spun him around. In the daylight the face, for all its wrinkles, was livelier than it had been when hed been pretending to be nearing dementia. Now the brown gaze was wilier. He glanced at his Ford. Id already memorized the license number. Im sorry about that. Just give me a hint, will you? A small one will do. The following morning, Stone and Vanessa conducted one more inspection of each others physical properties, declared themselves satisfied, and put the equipment to work. Strike that last remark about painters. Fill it with cops in business suits, male and female. Its located in an office building. Leave a table or two empty, one for Herbie. Travis! she barked. I guess so, yes … I… I suppose I must have left fingerprints. Like a ninny I didnt wear gloves … Oh, what a mess it is. He had burned through all his inheritance by then, and he had some personal scandals he was dealing with. Over twenty years ago, when Id only been an investigative journalist for a few years, I traced a meeting that Cowl had with some shady people in the Seychelles, but then the trail went cold. Then he dropped off the radar for about a year or so. He might have been in Asia or eastern Europe, at least those were my best guesses. Next, the man waltzes back into New York, buys and rehabs that skyscraper, starts his investment group, hires all sorts of pricey talent, suddenly has a clientlist that the biggest players on Wall Street would covet, and boom, hes the talk of the town. He wasnt even twenty-five years old..