Mind Scrambler by Chris Grabenstein

Author:Chris Grabenstein [Grabenstein, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429968768
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

We don’t measure the blood we’ve drawn anymore

We just stack the bodies outside the door

Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake

The last to die for a mistake

Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break

Who’ll be the last to die, for a mistake

—Bruce Springsteen, “Last to Die”

25

Ceepak and I monitor the radio chatter and race to the scene of the crime: the Royal Lodge, that shabby three-story motel directly across the street from the Xanadu.

I see about two dozen cops swarming all over the place: in the office, clunking up steel steps, patrolling the second- and third-floor terraces. The biggest cluster is on the second floor, bunched up outside a door near one of the rusty staircases.

Down on the ground, two cops in bicycle helmets are rolling out Police Line: Do Not Cross tape, penning in the cars crammed nose-to-bumper in the parking lot. Three boxy ambulances and half a dozen cruisers with their roof bars spinning are parked on the sidewalk, rear wheels hanging off the curb, shafts of colored light bouncing off motel windows.

More mirrors.

Ceepak flashes his deputy badge at the cop standing guard near the access point in the barrier tape. Fortunately, it’s one of the bicycle guys we met yesterday.

“We need to be upstairs,” says Ceepak. “We were working with Detective Flynn.”

The guy nods. “The chief is up there now.”

“What room?”

“Two-twelve. On the left.” He gestures toward that knot of blue uniforms on the second floor.

“How are Detective Flynn and his partner?” asks Ceepak.

The bike cop shakes his head. “They’re not gonna make it. The Pratt kid, either. It’s a mess up there.”

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