We've had a hit in the Daan District, the CID dispatcher said over the phone. One hundred percent match over a cell phone.

He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.

Mark Twain called the cherimoya “deliciousness itself,” though others have described this heart-shaped, fist-sized fruit with pale-green leathery skin as “reptilian,” like a “fossil artichoke” or “the finial for a giant four-poster bed.”

He easily shot the unsuspecting target.