Chapters 11-12 Summary

Driving away from St. Euthanasius, Nick loses his security detail. He gets a call from Jeanette, telling him that he is needed at the office for a meeting on the Academy's response to an EPA report on second-hand smoke. Nick stops at a coffee shop near the office as he is feeling groggy from his pain meds. Coming out he sees a homeless man and gives him a dollar and a cigarette. The homeless man puts a gun in Nick's back and directs him to a limo. Nick walks to the limo, then spins on the homeless man and throws his coffee at him. Unfortunately, the coffee lids do not come off, and Nick is dragged in to the limo, where he is hooded and his hands are tied. A man who sounds like Peter Lorre tells him he is being...