Star Cops by Boucher Chris

Author:Boucher, Chris [Boucher, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780956853974
Publisher: What Noise Productions
Published: 2013-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

Theroux’s pause was slightly longer than before, then he said, “Okay Nathan, you’re the man. It would help some if I knew what the question was, though.”

“You have only two real alternatives, David. If you rule out the accidental, then what you’re left with is deliberate.”

This did not seem to have occurred to Theroux. He looked genuinely surprised by the thought. “Someone set out to kill them?”

“Eliminate the impossible and whatever’s left, however improbable, must be the truth.”

“Jeez, I wish I’d had a classical education,” Theroux said wryly.

“And Sherlock Holmes always did have the advantage of knowing the answers right from the off. How’s the office?”

Theroux glanced around at what was out of scanner range. “Coming together. We’ll have most of what we need before long.” A brief pause, then, “How’s the apartment?”

Nathan appreciated the comparative delicacy of the question. “Strange. Something not right about it. I feel as though I’m being…picked on.”

“Shuttle-lag,” Theroux said. “And shit, you’re bound to be paranoid under the circumstances.”

Paranoid? Perhaps that was it. “They’ve assigned Devis as investigating officer.”

“Should I have heard of him?”

“He’s one of the department’s all time great cretins. British Native and All-Comers record holder. A cretin’s cretin, in fact.”

“Sounds like natural Star Cop material. You going to recruit him?”

Nathan smiled a little. “I’m going to dump you, if you don’t find the anomaly that explains what happened to the Dædalus. Keep in touch, yes?”

He killed the screen before Theroux could answer. It was only when he leaned back, that he realized he was sitting at the workstation.

“Box?” he said.

From the kitchen his own voice answered him. “Yes Nathan?”

“Book my usual table at the Lotus Garden.”

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