Chapters 14-15 Summary

Leon Gaines is the next suspect to be interviewed. On the way to his house in the FBI surveillance van, Kaiser, Lenz and Glass learn from agents watching his rundown house that he is arguing violently with his girlfriend, Linda Knapp. They decide to take a stronger approach than with Wheaton.

Gaines is reluctant to cooperate with Kaiser and Lenz in their questioning, but whem Kaiser threatens to have his house searched and possibly send Gaines back to prison, he grudgingly answers their questions. They learn he has great respect for Wheaton, but despises Frank Smith, whom he dismisses as a homosexual. He expresses a crude desire for Thalia Laveau. When Glass enters the house, Gaines makes some crude sexual remarks to her but shows no sign of having seen her before. After a violent scene between Gaines and his girlfriend...