Baldacci, David - Split Second by Baldacci David

Author:Baldacci, David
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Michel e had gotten only halfway through the Bob Scott file when she received the cal from Kate. Since Michel e obviously wouldn’t be getting back to it for a while, Joan had taken the box with her to the inn where she was staying and continued to go through it. After her last conversation with King, she needed something to take her mind off that very painful encounter.

When she opened the box and started sifting through its contents, she realized that Parks hadn’t been joking: it was a mess. However, she dutiful y turned every page, reading each document until it became clear it was not the right Bob Scott.

After a couple of hours she cal ed room service for a snack and a pot of coffee. She was going to be here a while, and she had no idea when King and Maxwel would be returning. She started to phone King but then decided against it.

She was nearing the bottom of the box when her scrutiny intensified. She pul ed out the sheaf of papers and spread them out on her bed. They appeared to be a warrant for the arrest of one Robert C. Scott. The address where the warrant was to be served was in Tennessee somewhere, although Joan didn’t recognize the town’s name. From what she could tel , it had to do with a weapons charge. This Bob Scott had some guns he shouldn’t have. Whether it was the Bob Scott she was looking for or not, she couldn’t tel yet. However, the Bob Scott she knew had loved his guns.

As she read further, it became even more intriguing. The Marshals Service had been engaged, as they often were, to serve the warrant on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, or ATF. That was probably why Parks had been able to get his hands on this document. Bob Scott might have ties to this current case, but it would have to be from the Ritter angle. And yet they had al speculated that Bruno and Ritter might be connected somehow. They had the murders of Loretta Baldwin and Mildred Martin to show that connection. And yet how could such two very different cases involve al the same parties? What was the common denominator? What! It was driving her mad that the answer might be staring them al in the

face and they stil couldn’t see it.

Her cel phone rang. It was Parks.

“Where are you now?” he asked.

“I’m at the Cedars. I’ve been going over that box you left.

And I think I might have hit on something.” She told him about the warrant.

“Damn, was it served on Scott?”

“I don’t know. Presumably not, since if he’d been arrested, it would have shown up somewhere and we’d know about it.”

“If the guy’s got warrants issued against him for gun violations, maybe he’s the wacko behind al this.”

“But how do we tie him to everything? It doesn’t make sense.”

“Agreed,” he said wearily. “Where are King and Maxwel ?”

“They went to talk to Kate Ramsey.

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