Glasgow Copycat: A DCI MacBain Scottish Crime Thriller by Oliver Davies

Author:Oliver Davies [Davies, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Two

As mightily impressed as I was that Sofia had not only managed to confirm that the address we had for Reynolds was genuine but also that she’d been able to talk her way into his office and have a one-on-one face-off with him, the tension was unbearable for me. I imagined that it must have been intense for Sofia too, but sitting on my arse listening to their high-stakes confrontation from the relative safety of my car didn’t sit well with me.

I was wracking my brain trying to think of a way that I could get in to help Sofia get out whilst also listening to her and Reynolds on my phone.

“How did you get in here?” Reynolds asked.

Reynolds had a deep, gravelly voice with a well-spoken southern English accent. It felt surreal to put a voice to the name of one of the main people who had tried so hard to kill me. I wondered if I was also listening to the voice of my dad’s murderer.

“The same way I got anywhere in life,” Sofia replied, “determination.”

I heard Sofia put something down on what sounded like it must have been Reynolds’ desk. “This conversation is going to be recorded,” Sofia said.

“In that case, for the purposes of the recording, let it be known that Sofia Yates is pointing a gun at me.”

“Get your hands away from the desk!”

“Calm down, woman, you’re being emotional.”

“I haven’t introduced myself yet. For the purposes of the recording, how do you know my name?”

“Because you’re an investigative journalist.”

“And you know what I’ve been investigating.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Sofia. You’ll have to enlighten me.”

“You, Edward Reynolds, alongside the Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Black, were in charge of a series of extremely unethical experiments on twins. Those twins were all children, and you, William Black, Dr Neil Slater, Dr Jakub Kaminski, and others, committed crimes against humanity. You called your despicable set of experiments Project T.”

“You sound like you’ve got severe mental health issues, Sofia. Let me make a phone call and get you some help. It’s only a matter of time until there’s a knock on my door from one of my agents to remind me about a meeting that I’m about to be late for.”

“Tell the truth!”

Sofia was too loud, and I thought someone must have heard her, and my concern that she had been and that she was losing her grip on the situation was heightened when I heard someone knocking on Reynolds’ door.

“What are you going to do now?” Reynolds asked.

“You’re going to tell them to go away.”

“Or you’ll shoot me?”

Sofia didn’t respond, and there was another knock on the door.

“For the record,” Reynolds said, “Sofia is still pointing a gun at me.”

Sofia lost her cool. “And I’ll use it on you if you don’t tell them everything’s fine.”

“This is pointless; it’ll be clear from your recording that you’re coercing me to confess something I have absolutely no idea about.”

Reynolds was right; we wouldn’t be able to pass off anything he said about Project T as evidence if it was proven that we’d coerced him.

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