Sign of the Maker (Boston Crime Thriller Book 4) by Brian Shea

Author:Brian Shea [Shea, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn River Publishing
Published: 2021-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

21

Langston and Salinger had been sitting in the spacious waiting room for about ten minutes. Langston sipped noisily from the paper cup containing the lukewarm coffee he'd poured from the pot in the corner of the room. The sugar didn't melt, and he struggled to swallow down the slurry at the bottom. It moved along the inside of the cup like slow-moving lava until it disappeared into his mouth and down his throat.

"That's why I hit the vending machine." Salinger held up a can of Dr. Pepper.

"I'll take crap coffee over the twenty-three flavors of blended additives used to make up the poison you're drinking." Langston felt like a hypocrite. He actually loved Dr. Pepper. But after a doctor put him on a restrictive diet, the heavyset FBI agent had been disciplined enough to avoid all soda.

"Are you really still planning on retiring in three years?"

Salinger had broached the topic in a variety of ways over the brief courtship of their new partnership. Langston understood where it came from. Salinger was a bright shiny badge, excited for every case crossing their desk. Langston's years and experience had long since tarnished his.

"Like I said before, I'm not doing this job without a gun on my hip." Langston crushed the paper cup and tossed it into a nearby waste bin. The FBI had a mandatory retirement for agents over the age of fifty-seven. There were administrative positions that transcended the age barrier, but those members of the agency were no longer allowed to carry department-issued firearms. In the terms of a working agent, it was the death of their career. Langston knew himself well enough to know that was never in the cards for him. He'd been with the Federal Bureau of Investigation since he was twenty-seven years old. A career spanning nearly thirty years was now coming to a close. With only a little bit of time left on his investigative clock, Langston wanted nothing more than to finish with a win. And cases like this didn't come along every day. This might be his last real chance at hitting the high note on his way out the door.

He'd been lead investigator on several high-profile cases over his career, but after punching one of his supervisors in the face, he'd been taken out of the spotlight for a while. It was his fault for losing his cool. He knew it, but the supervisor had crossed the line, calling into question his work ethic. Not unlike Kelly had done when he disparaged his failed attempt at the Collins interview.

This bombing case was his first time back in the limelight after a brief hiatus wherein he was assigned to investigate large-scale embezzlement and misappropriation of campaign funds by a Florida congressman. The work had been tedious with little in the way of personal satisfaction. Langston played nice and was eventually brought back to the show, the big cases that drew national attention. It wasn't like riding a bike. He'd been out of the

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