FIFTEEN HOURS LATER, the United Airlines plane landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha.
The first thing he did was to make a courtesy call to Ruby’s mom, Jade.
She thanked him for coming and insisted that he stay with her for the duration of his visit. ‘There’s plenty of room,’ she said.
He was inclined to refuse, but he could sense that she wouldn’t take no for an answer.
He took a cab to her residence. With a foreigner in the back seat, the friendly driver talked endlessly about all things touristy, until White asked him to turn on the radio.
The driver soon stopped the taxi in front of a white house. The façade was clad with timber in the upper section and stone in the lower half. The front lawn was unfenced which was typical of the neighbourhood in this part of Bellevue.
He paid and
