A young woman in the hair salon raises her a in a furtive gesture, frank and tantalizingly brief, to show a friend the work in progress: a riot of stunning tattoos. From his accidental vantage point in the barber's chair, Fred Taylor knows that those images-weird insects, beasts, and naked human figures-could only come from something nice, a painting that, if he could only see the original in person, might prove to be rare and of significant value....
