"Pretty good for a guy staying in what's practically a flop house."

As the two men looked over his shoulder, Mike opened the passport.

It was also in the name of Jiro Ichikawa and, although the picture was even worse than the normal standard, it was still recognizably the suspect. It was new, issued only the previous June, not long before Ichikawa had left Japan.

From the stamps, they determined that Ichikawa had flown first to Mexico, and then entered the U.S. via Miami on July 8th. A smart move, Brian thought. Immigration officials there would be much more focused on identifying drug smugglers than Japanese gangsters, as might have been the case if Ichikawa had landed in either Hawaii or California, where officials are trained to look for missing fingertips.