Dead Biker by Jerry Langton

Author:Jerry Langton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2013-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

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“He's not here,” Meloni told Tovar and O'Malley. “Although I appreciate your diligence in checking out every angle of every clue, I really don't think we're gonna find Aiken in the tri-state area, the mid-Atlantic, or anywhere around here. Let's face it: the perp has fled the scene. So where is he?”

“We have to find the bike,” O'Malley said. She was still disappointed that the bike she went to go look at had not turned out to be Aiken's. “He loved the bike. He bought it when he had no money. He restored it—to show-stopping quality—even though he made just a hair better than minimum wage. And after he sold it, he stole it back with a great deal of danger to his own personal safety. You find the bike, and I'm sure Aiken will be close by, trying to get it back.”

“We can't find the bike,” Meloni pointed out. “Nobody seems to have seen it. Unless you can provide something to make me think it still exists, we have nothing.”

“Sure, but we also have to find the girlfriend in Moldova,” said Tovar. “Aiken is a sucker for the opposite sex. Not that he's a skirt chaser, just a sucker. Didn't he risk everything he had for the little girl he met hours before? Didn't he bring his girlfriend along when he tried to get over the border into Canada? The guy is a romantic to an almost ridiculous fault. Not exactly your grade-A gangster tough guy. Get to the girl or the girls, and you get to him.”

“Well, the little girl doesn't know anything, or won't talk. And the girlfriend is somewhere in Eastern Europe—if she hasn't escaped from her hellhole of a country again,” Meloni said. “So we can't find her.”

“But if we could . . .”

“Yeah, if we could find the girlfriend, if we could find the bike, everything would be great,” Meloni said. “But we haven't found anything. Until we do, we have to work with what we have. Tovar, you keep investigating Andersson, Hawkridge, and the guy who bought the Indian off Aiken. O'Malley, talk with the CIA, see what we can get on the girlfriend. Keep an eye on the little girl and just find out whatever you can.”

They both agreed. Pressure from Harrison and open criticism from other officers had made Meloni even more desperate to get to the bottom of Kuzik's murder. Not only would it shut his detractors up once and for all, it might also get him out of Philadelphia.

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