The Lost Boys by Tim Sullivan

Author:Tim Sullivan [Sullivan, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803289243
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Ottey had drawn a blank in her attempts to find the report on the home. Then help came from a completely unexpected quarter. DCI Carson’s nose for something going on in his department that he was hitherto unaware of was legendary and it led him directly to the three members of Team Arthur one day. He’d noticed their frequent, surreptitious meetings, and the increased activity at their desks that immediately followed these meetings, which could mean only one thing. They were up to something and he needed to know what that was. He liked to think of himself as something of an expert manager. Indeed he had been on every course in management that the human resources department of the Avon and Somerset police force had sent his way. But he had, of course, gone the extra mile any potential future chief constable – which was how he liked to think of himself – would have, and he had done several online management courses in the privacy of his office and on weekends at home. While he may not have perfected all the suggested techniques, he definitely had a firm grip on the management-speak required. He had several of these buzzwords and motivational bon mots down to a fine art.

With the three members of staff in question that day he knew before he’d even crossed the department how he was going to approach the thorny topic of their covert activity. There was no point in asking staffer Mackenzie because she was too loyal to her superior officers and wouldn’t tell him anything. A good quality it had to be said, annoyingly, but no use to him in the present circumstances. DS Ottey would just lie her way out of it without batting an eyelid and because of their combative relationship would likely enjoy getting one over on her boss. He wasn’t about to needlessly furnish her with that opportunity. This left Cross who was a perfect target because he had a real problem with lying. It wasn’t just that he disapproved of it in principle, he was crap at it. Absolute crap. He could detect it in others with enviable ease but he simply couldn’t do it himself. He was a hopeless liar and knew it. It also wasn’t just that he disliked it as a means of miscommunication. He knew that you would be found out eventually and up until that point would have to maintain the falsehood whenever near those people you had foisted it on. Something he simply couldn’t do.

‘What’s going on, George?’ was Carson’s opening gambit.

‘I don’t understand the question,’ came the reply.

Ah, thought Carson, a new tactic perhaps. Obfuscation. Interesting. So he laid the question out as clearly as if he were talking to a child. ‘What are you and your friends working on at the moment?’

‘I don’t have any friends here.’

‘Well that hurts,’ said Ottey playfully.

‘Yep, I felt that too,’ Mackenzie added.

‘You, Ottey and Mackenzie. What are you working on that I am not

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