In the middle of all this, every now and then I’d recall that tantalizing piece of information I’d been given about one of the charges against Kevin Poulsen, for a hack that Eric said he had taken part in: the radio contest that had supposedly won Eric a Porsche, and Poulsen himself two more. At other odd moments, I’d remember the contest I’d heard on the radio while driving to Vegas that dreary day not long after my half-brother’s death. Finally those two items collided in my brain.