Chapter Fourteen
Five and a half years in the past.
The girl stood on the corner of Rues Bourbon and Bienville chatting with New Orleans’ politicians as they made their pilgrimage into the mouldering and rather non-descript old two story building. She was not a stiffly sprayed blond of the 1980s or 90s, the cameraman mused as he peered at her through the video display, but one of the interchangeable pretty young naturals of the new millennium that NBC garnered from its local affiliates and groomed for the Today Show, exhibiting all-American good health and soft, shoulder length tawny brown or chestnut locks.
The live feed’s location was carefully chosen not only for the historic background provided by the French Quarter. For eighty years, Arnaud’s Restaurant and jazz club had provided t
