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“Think back thirteen years ago, Mary.”
“Okay, the four murders.”
“We were newly minted homicide detectives.”
“Right.”
“So brand-new detectives were sent out on a four-person murder scene with no seasoned detective to head up the investigation.”
She glanced at Natty. “That’s right. There were more senior detectives available to investigate the case. Including you, Blake.”
Decker said, “I looked back through the records from that night. You want to guess who assigned us to that case?”
Miller said disgustedly, “Childress, when he was heading up the detective division.”
“That’s right. He wanted inexperienced people on that case who would jump all over the forensic evidence that had been planted and never look anywhere else.”
Decker glanced at Natty. “You might have seen what we didn’t see back then, Natty.”
“Maybe, maybe not. But I wouldn’t have figured it out all these years later, I can tell you that. Not like you did.”
“Well, hindsight is twenty-twenty. And I didn’t figure it out in time to save Meryl Hawkins.”
Bogart said, “We’ll keep looking for Egorshin and Gardiner and the rest. In the meantime, you all have to be on your top guard. From everything we know so far, you blew up a substantial spy ring operating in this country. The odds are these people will hightail it out of the country to live to fight another day.”
Decker said, “But there’s always a chance that they’re going to hang back and exact their revenge. That’s sort of a very KGB thing to do.”
“Exactly,” said Bogart. “In fact, there’s no reason for you to stay around, Decker.”
“No, there’s unfinished business I have to take care of.”
“Like what?” asked Bogart.
“Meryl Hawkins.”
“You can’t bring him back to life.”
“No, but I can do the next best thing.”
