Chapters 34 through 36 Summary

Nick makes the drive as Eduardo would have done upon his arrival in New Orleans and comes to the conclusion that Eduardo must have stashed something in the taxi that drives him into town. Nick catches up with Sally Ellion and has her do a search through city taxi records, hoping to find a name or license plate that the clue Eduardo left in blood would fit. As he looks over the names, Sally recovers one that might possibly fit his clue. Nick suddenly realizes that the blood, seeping onto the clue in the grooves of the linoleum, had changed the letters and that what was really written there was RONI instead of ROM. He locates a cab driver named Roni Ovitz, discovers that he was shot and quit driving, but the cab remains in operation. The cab is recalled to...