East of the Hollywood Freeway on Melrose Avenue, Nick weighed the pros and cons of catching up with the detective from Cyprus.

If this could unravel and expose the illegal duplicities of a big oil company, that’s the only way it might possibly prove worthwhile.

Finding the Cypriot detective may or may not be difficult.  He had no idea.  The man he had just met with had given him two possible leads.  One was the name of a woman in Hollywood who was the detective’s daughter, who he was supposedly coming to LA to visit.

The other lead Nick considered useless, access to a hacker who had supposedly done work for the Cypriot detective.  You were rarely handed access to top shelf hackers.

East of the Hollywood Freeway on Melrose Avenue, Nick pulled out of the Mobil station into traffic so light he wondered for a moment why the city had fallen asleep.