Chapter 10
HE STARED at the body for a long time. It was the same face he had seen at the morgue and now he leaned over to examine the tattoos designs, on each arm, the Kid had told him about. The corpse wore shoes and trousers but from belt up it was nude.
That then, thought Cellini, was the reason why Dado and Vanzy had stolen the body for Bornaman. Alex wanted something concealed in Danny Meade's jacket or shirt. But that didn't make sense either, for Meade wasn't buried in the clothes in which he had been murdered. Homicide was holding on to it to try to identify the body and a new cheap suit had been bought for the interment.
After a while Cellini gave it up. He took a final look at the face and the slit-like wound where the metal slug had entered the heart, and lowered the lid. He
