Chapter 3 Summary

Zoyd goes to meet Hector at the bowling alley the next day. He has known Hector ever since the late sixties, when he first knocked on the door of the shack near the Southern California beach where Zoyd lived with Van Meter and several other musicians and hippies. Hector was looking for information and willing to pay for it. In the time since then, Hector and Zoyd have crossed paths several times, but Zoyd has never snitched on anyone.

Over lunch at the bowling alley, Hector tells Zoyd his ex-wife, Frenesi Gates, is in trouble. She has been in the witness protection plan, but the budget covering her hiding has been cut and she has been turned loose. Her files have been deleted from the government computers. Zoyd has not been in contact with Frenesi since she left him when Prairie was still...