The kid’s hairless little noggin was in a little gray skullcap, kind of like a stuffed baked mushroom. Alex was no connoisseur of infants, but even he could tell that his little nephew—Michael Gregory Mulcahey—was not an attractive child. It was hard to tell, with the baby’s squashed, cartilaginous little face, but he seemed to have the worst features of both his parents: Juanita’s square jaw and Mulcahey’s odd, bull-like forehead.