Dayfall by Michael David Ares

Author:Michael David Ares
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

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“You need to go back to the Flatiron,” Jon told Halladay when they were in the car. “Work with Amira on that map of the underground and any chaos crimes video she can get access to. Now that we know our witness was right about Shinsky knifing people in the crowd, and we also know he’s been moving around in the underground, we can piece together how many of the deaths could have been caused by him or his buddy from the office building.”

“Where will you be?” the older cop said.

“Drop me off at The Office, so I can talk to Mallory a little. I’ll walk to the Flatiron when I’m done.”

“Without me?” Halladay said with raised eyebrows. “Is there an apartment behind that bar or something?”

Jon let that ride, because Mallory hadn’t wanted Halladay to be there, so she probably didn’t want the big Scot to know why Jon himself was going.

“You wanna tell me finally,” Halladay said after a while, “why all the focus on Render and Gotham Security? I’m figuring you had some information you didn’t share with me, and that’s how you knew what direction you were going in from the start.”

“The Mayor told me something when she hired me,” Jon said, ready for Halladay to be all in—or mostly in, at least. “She told me that Render was behind the crimes, sowing panic so that he could win the referendum vote on Tuesday. She said she knew that the two professors at NYU were on his payroll, though she couldn’t prove it. She wanted me to get the evidence to expose Render before the vote, and stop the killings before Dayfall so that people could feel safe without him.”

“Ahhh,” Halladay said. “Why didn’t the King just give me the info she had? She knows I like her, and she knows I don’t like Darth Render.”

“That’s why. She needed an outsider who could be believed, not someone who owes something to either side.”

Halladay thought for a moment, then said, “But now you’re having second thoughts…”

“Why do you say that?”

“You called him ‘sir.’”

“I was surprised that Shinsky was still there, that Render didn’t warn him off. But I’m sure there’s an explanation for that—the evidence all still points to GS. The Mayor hadn’t even thought about the underground transportation angle, which I bet you’ll find is something that ties the Dayfall murders and the chaos crimes together.”

“Makes sense to me,” Halladay said, then both men sat in silence for the last few minutes of the ride, until Jon got out at The Office and the older cop continued toward MPD headquarters a couple of blocks away.

Jon felt a surge of adrenaline as he entered the bar, knowing he was about to get some new information for the case, but also because he was going to see Mallory again. He felt even more exhilarated when those ice-blue eyes looked up at him, her full lips smiling at him, the dark wisps of hair on her forehead moving as she gestured for him to meet her in the back room.

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