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“Even better,” Mahoney said.
“Game on,” I said and watched Liu and Moore in prison garb being led into an interrogation room.
We walked in and sat across from them but stayed quiet.
“I want a lawyer,” Moore said flatly.
Liu seemed more flustered. “We both do.”
“We’ve notified federal defenders, but maybe you don’t need them,” I said. “Just answer a few questions before they arrive, and maybe this all goes away. A big mistake. Lisa? Suzanne?”
Liu said, “I’ve never killed anyone in my life.”
Sampson said, “What about your lover? Has she?”
Moore shot John an ugly look.
“Lisa?” Liu said. “She wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
I said, “Did you know that during a raid in the Middle East, she killed two innocent civilians, a mother and her daughter?”
“That was investigated,” Liu protested. “It was an accident. Still haunts her.”
Moore said nothing.
“I bet it does. What about that book proposal you were shopping around?”
“What about it?” the former editor said, more wary than frightened now.
Moore said, “I told you to shut up, Suzanne.”
“Did you have a hand in writing the proposal, Suzanne?”
Liu glanced at Moore. “Of course I did. She’s a first-timer.”
Moore scowled.
“Doesn’t know how to put that kind of thing together?”
“Lisa’s a quick learner, but yes. I helped her structure it, showed her the format. Sample chapters. Outline. Market analysis.”
“And you knew whom to approach at various houses.”
“I was always aware of my competition, so yes,” she said, on firmer ground now.
“Did you gin it up?” Sampson said.
“What do you mean?”
“Embellish the story? Add details that might or might not be true?”
“This is nonfiction. Lisa stands by the facts in the proposal and so do I.”
“One hundred percent?” Mahoney said, studying Moore.
“To the best of my knowledge, everything is true, yes,” Liu said. “Why?”
I sat forward. “Because we went through the proposal and compared it to our timeline of events and then ran it all by Thomas Tull.”
