Over breakfast with Odile and Alberto, Hollis (former “singer in an early-nineties cult band” The Curfew) learns of other locative art installations, “spatially tagged hypermedia.” “virtual shrines” to the past made possible by geohacking and “(v)isible to all” on special devices such as those designed by Alberto.
Hollis realizes that she has something to write about for Node, “though she was still a long way from knowing what it was.” [439 characters]
Brown (cop? FBI? DEA?) supplies his “hostage,” East Village attic
Milgrim, with just enough Ativan to keep him “not there,” protected from Dennis Birdwell (Milgrim’s former dealer)… and cooperative. Brown is tracking IFs (Illegal Facilitators) “whose crimes facilitated the crimes of others” and needs Milgrim’s rare ability to translate Volapuk, an artificial Russian language using Roman letters to approximate Cyrillic ones.
Brown’s IF of focus is a Russian-speaking “ethnic (Cuban-Chinese? Filipino?) version of a younger Johnny Depp,” Alejandro’s cousin Tito. [566 characters]
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Canal Street [New York City]
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Washington Square [New York City]
In New York’s Washington Square, 22-year old
Tito, a Havana-born immigrant fluent in Russian, secretly passes an iPod to an old man in “dead man’s” clothing. Tito’s older cousin,
Alejandro “has been chosen to apprentice under
Juana, their aunt, the family’s master forger.”
In a Chinese restaurant on Canal Street, Tito and Alejandro discuss their “invisible raft of tradecraft, the protocol,” passed down from their grandfather, the craft of a crime family surviving in a dangerous world. [488 characters]
