it was always the same. Nino wouldn't get the call until just before the meeting. Ari would name the place, and Nino would have to hustle and would get there in a flop sweat.

Ari thought he was calling a pay phone at a location selected by Nino. But he wasn't. Nino used a cell phone with a disposable prepaid SIM card from one of the major US carriers. He would buy a new SIM card and give Ari the number at each meeting, leaving the Israeli to believe he would be calling a different pay phone. Why should Nino race all over town being jerked around at pay phones when he could sit in a local bar and wait for the call?

The cadaver would greet him without anot seventy years old. It's more than ninety years old.

"I know," says Joselyn. "But haven't they extracted DNA from dinosaur fossils much older than that?"

"Yes, they can get dinosaur DNA, but it's because they're taking it from bones, inside near the marrow. And the bones have been buried underground." I have been through all of this with DNA experts on the stand. Read tomes on the subject in an effort to avoid having my ass kicked in the courtroom.

"With DNA," I tell her, "it's all about how the materials are stored or preserved by natural conditions. Whether they were protected from UV radiation, heat, and water. Two things that will destroy DNA faster than anything else are sunlight and rain. Here you're talking a flag that was taken