Dirty Harry: Death on the Docks by Dane Hartman

Author:Dane Hartman [Hartman, Dane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 0446907928
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1981-09-09T17:37:24+00:00

C H A P T E R

E l e v e n

The assistant D.A. couldn’t have been more than thirty-five years old; he had the look of a Harvard Law grad who’d trained in the Southern District of New York, done some pro bono work, and somehow decided he’d be better off coming west and setting up shop on another coast altogether. Now it might be he was raised right here in San Francisco, but the impression Harry had was of someone who’d breathed the salt spray off the Atlantic Ocean until some dormant restlessness had sprung up in him and got him moving.

He still gave off an Ivy League aura; he was tall and not bad looking, but too serious in his bearing. He wore glasses that had a tint to them which subtly altered depending on how much light there was available and he dressed impeccably. His name was Robert Nunn. He beckoned Harry to a seat in front of his desk.

“Officer Callahan, I have been studying with great interest your report about the whole Tuber case,” he began, allowing his fingers to dance through a great sheaf of papers on his blotter.

Harry said nothing, waiting to hear that the evidence was so slender that it was not worth the State’s time and money to prosecute. Or else that the confession he’d elicited from Justin Powell was somehow unconstitutional and thus inadmissible in a court of law.

“You’ve been working on this for months now, haven’t you?”

Harry owned that he had.

Abruptly Nunn rose. “I like it,” he said. “I like the work you’ve done. I think we may have a problem with your promise to Powell. I’m a little disturbed, I don’t mind telling you, about the way you promised him immunity without clearing it with our office—” He put up his hand, uninterested in the protest he anticipated from Harry. “But that’s neither here nor there. I think we can work something out with our man Powell. The important thing is to get to Braxton, is it not?”

For the first time Harry regarded him with something other than skepticism and mistrust. Was it possible that he’d found an ally—and in the D.A.’s office of all places?

“I agree with you but you’ll notice Powell never named Braxton. He charged only that he’d received orders from Ryan and that all he did was to deliver them. That’s the way it’s always set up. Bull and Powell, they’re errand boys. They got power till Braxton snaps it away from them.”

“I am aware of that.” Nunn removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes. Without the glasses he looked slightly haggard as if he hadn’t slept well for weeks. “But I don’t think that we’re facing any serious obstacles here. I’ve obtained a warrant for Ryan’s arrest. Since you seem to have such a pronounced interest in this case I wanted you to know about the warrant. Maybe, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to do the honors and serve it. I’m not in charge of that department.

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