Remembering Dresden (Jack Turner Suspense Series Book 2) by Dan Walsh

Author:Dan Walsh [Walsh, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bainbridge Press
Published: 2016-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Located down the hall just one door from Boyd’s office was the men’s restroom. Officer Tony Campbell just happened to be coming out of the restroom five minutes ago. He had planned on just walking past Boyd’s office back to his desk. That is, until he’d heard someone mention the Senator Wagner’s name. His ears perked right up like a dog hearing the dinner bell.

Campbell stood still, very still, and listened to what the men were saying. It was Boyd talking with Hank Jensen, Boyd’s pet. There was a third man who was clearly the one stirring up all this talk. Campbell recognized him from that big shootout case that happened last year out at the college. Jack something. He didn’t remember his last name. An easy problem to solve.

He didn’t really understand everything they were saying. Something to do with the Senator’s father. Campbell had never met the old man. But for the last two years, Campbell had been receiving a steady monthly check from the Senator for what they had agreed to call “private security services.” It was easy money. So far, he’d just wanted Campbell to alert him to any conversations about him that took place at the police station, or anything that concerned him, his law office, or his dealings as a state senator—no matter how small.

This certainly qualified.

He hadn’t had anything to report for about six weeks, so he was actually glad he’d stumbled into this. Wouldn’t want to give the Senator any reason to cancel this lucrative arrangement. Campbell was making his bass boat payment with it.

When he got back to his desk, he spent some time digging through the online reports until he found those related to the college shootout last year. He didn’t have to read long before he found the name he’d been looking for. He’d remembered the guy had been wounded. Sergeant Boyd had actually received a commendation for saving the man’s life.

His name was Jack Turner. Back when this whole thing went down, he’d been a guest lecturer at Culpepper. Campbell had heard something about him teaching there full time now. He pulled out his personal cell phone, looked up the number the Senator had given him for Harold Vandergraf, the Senator’s aide. He was instructed to always call Vandergraf first. Vandergraf would decide when, or if, Campbell’s information needed to be passed up the ladder.

Campbell got up from his desk, pulled out his cigarette pack and showed it to one of the guys as he headed outside. “Smoke break.” He pushed the send button.

After a few rings, Vandergraf answered the phone. “Officer Campbell, been a while since I’ve heard from you. I was wondering if you’d forgotten about us.”

“No, nothing like that. Just nothing worthwhile to report. Guess no news is good news, though, right?”

“I suppose that could be true,” Vandergraf said. “You calling must mean you have something worthwhile now…”

“Potentially,” Campbell said. He lit his cigarette. “Overheard a conversation just now in Sergeant Boyd’s office. He was talking with another officer and a professor at the college, who’d come in to see him.

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