Chapter Seven
Before I showed my face at Recca Mann's office, I made sure to do some recon. The address she gave was a seven-story brick cube that covered an entire block. It had started life a century earlier as a warehouse and retail store for Sears Roebuck & Co. Later turned into some kind of government administration building, storage for old filing cabinets or something. Recently, a real estate developer had converted it into office and retail space. It was still the same ancient brick facade. I think architects call that "character".
I cruised around the block. There were construction cranes at the back, behind the parking lot. New apartment complex going up. Next door to that was a matte black warehouse, with a rusty metal roof, that had been converted into a goth nightclub. An ab
