Chapter 9. The Healer

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Marion collected the numbers of every restaurant in the area that would deliver to the room, so by the time he rang the desk bell his support system h1ad consisted of four pizzerias, two reasonably sanitary-looking Chinese places, a Jamaican jerk joint, a very decent hot wing shack, and, what seemed like a great stroke of luck to Marion, the Crestview Diner, which was open to Marion’s proposition for a special arrangement; normally, no delivery, but the proprietor, a man called Jabir, informed Marion that he had in his employ a legally licensed-to-drive busboy who was happy to set off on deliveries if Marion promised to tip well. Marion promised. Then he took a room on the second floor of the Motel Americana. 201.

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