"Brotherman took the black packages down and loaded them into his truck, then the chair and ironing board, to be delivered to Vianca"[...]
"Sometimes the closer to a truth one gets, the more complicated things become. The men in bars who explain every dark secret of this world [believe that] no secret requires more than three drinks to explain... The three-drink answers never contain the truth."
" She ate a dollar-fifty-nine barbecue beef rib with broasted potatoes off a paper plate on the trunk of the Passat, waiting for Alberto to turn up at Mr. Sippee, a blended oasis of peace and mutual respect situated in a twenty-four hour convenience store at the Arco gas station at Blaine and Eleventh."
Chapter summaries (may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information):
Chapter 31. PURO
Alejandro shows Tito the cellular traffic bug planted by the old man’s enemies [or, more likely, contractors "working for someone in the government, perhaps, but not on government business"] to intercept Volapuk messages sent to and from Tito’s soon-to-be-former room. Tito learns that the old man was once a counterintelligence officer and is now a "rogue player" to whose operation Tito's uncles have committed the family (specifically, Tito).The old man’s operation is likely an attempt to exact revenge on government figures guilty of crimes. Tito's role in the operation is to meet the old man once again, receive an iPod containing "puro" ["the most perfectly groundless lies"], and "lose" the device to the pursuing enemies. [731 characters]
The "cellular traffic bug" intercepting sounds in Tito's room and transmitting them via mobile cellular phone, rather than intercepting actual mobile phone calls.
"Puro" sounds like the classical spook world technique of Disinformation
Chapter 32. MR. SIPPEE
Outside Mr. Sippee, Alberto tells Hollis that Bobby Chombo is gone, emails bouncing, locative art pieces offline (including a Sharon Tate work-in-progress). Alberto is suspicious given that he "can't imagine [Bobby] getting it together to move out. Not that efficiently." [270 characters]