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The DCI shifted in his chair and winced faintly Leaned forward ‘Who was it tried to run ht?’
‘What?’
‘On the airfield’
‘Not while I was there’
‘No, just after you’d gone Sohts When they did that, they thought they’d better flattenhard and he didn’t like what he’d heard Driving a car fro like he had before …
‘You heard of David Angus?’
Andy looked up The DCI was boring holes into him
‘Be hard not to I told you before’
‘Did you ever see him?’
‘No Not that I know of, any road’
‘You didn’t pick hi of –’
Andy stood up, al the chair over ‘No I fuckin’ did not’
‘Sit down Did you drive the sauar down Sorrel Drive on –’
‘No, I did not,’ he shouted
‘Listen, Andy …’ So it was Andy suddenly ‘It don’t look too brilliant for you Two thirty in thea stolen car A car of the kind known to have been in the street froot sod all to do with me I wouldn’t touch a kid and you know it’
‘Do I? How do I?’
‘Gunton,’ the DCI said wearily, ‘listen Just tell us who told you to pick up the car and take it to the airfield Tell us anything you know about why and how many times you’ve done it before’
‘And?’
‘Just tell us’
Andy didn’t believe Lee Carter had anything to do with the little boy Money was his thing, not taking kids
‘Come on, come on’
‘OK … and this is all And when I’ve told you, I wanna go and I don’t want nokid because I swear to God I would never, never have –’
‘Just talk,’ Serrailler said
He believed him, Andy Gunton could tell
He leaned on the table and started There wasn’t a lot to confess when it ca for hi up the cars, twice, and leaving theain ‘Cos you ain’t doing it for kisses’
‘Cash Through the post’
‘How much?’
‘Hundred pounds,’ he said quickly
‘And the rest’
‘Hundred pounds’
‘Who else is involved?’
‘I never saw anyone else’
‘Just Carter’
‘Yeah’
The DCI stood up ‘Interview terminated … 828 a eant will bail you And don’t go anywhere We ain’
They left hi
He counted himself lucky
Forty-four
‘How about Karin?’
Silence The clock struck half past ten with its sweet chime
‘Chris?’
He was in the ar on the television news and he was asleep Cat got up and switched off the set In his crib beside her Felix stirred and sucked his lips but Chris slept on She was odparents and so far there had been no obvious candidate for Felix’s god his great ginger body against theand she opened it to let hi knives into the roo Simon to find out how his arm was It was five days since he had injured it and he had still complained to Cat of pain when he had called in for a quick sandwich the previous afternoon He had seemed low-spirited, frustrated and pessius case
‘Don’t knohere else to turn’
The case was now entered on HOLMES, the central database for major police inquiries, which meant that every force in the country was linked into it and able to access and cross-reference the information If there were any other cases with similarities to the abduction of David they would quickly co his hands through his hair ‘I think I fell asleep’
‘This can’t go on, Chris Look at you, you’re absolutely exhausted’
The new locuency who could not, for the ht cover
‘I’ll coet help with Felix Sally Warrender can’t wait to have more of him, she said so today’
‘No, you won’t co a year out End of story I’o to sleep straight after supper and you sleep like the dead through the night, you walk about like a zombie, the children wonder if you actually live here It’s like your first year as a houseman, only you’re not twenty-four years old’
But he waved at her to be quiet as he took the call
‘Yes, I’ll cohly where you are’ He wrote ‘Fine … will you wait at the eant’
‘Police call?’
‘Man found dead in a car in the woods near Starly’
‘Not a hosepipe job?’
‘Seems like it Never too much fun’