The Inside Ring by Mike Lawson

Author:Mike Lawson [Lawson, Mike]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mike Lawson
ISBN: 9781400095148
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2006-06-25T23:00:00+00:00

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On the flight back to D.C., DeMarco scanned a copy of The Washington Post to see if Billy’s death had made the papers. He had expected it to be front-page news and was surprised that it wasn’t. He flipped through the paper and finally found the story on page two of the Metro section. The paper only said that a man had been killed by an armed robber while getting cash from a bank machine and that a bystander had intervened and shot the robber. The victim’s name was being withheld, pending notification of his next of kin.

DeMarco understood what had happened. Billy had been killed about ten last night and the detectives were questioning DeMarco and the two teenagers until almost two a.m. By the time Billy’s wife had been notified and had identified the body, it would have been early morning, maybe later.

Sometime today, however, Billy’s name would be released and enterprising journalists would connect the name of the dead man with the Secret Service agent guarding the President at Chattooga River. It had been eleven days since Harold Edwards’s body had been found and in that time the press had pretty much accepted the FBI’s position that Edwards had acted alone. But now that Billy Mattis had been killed, DeMarco was guessing that a herd of journalists would stampede over to the Hoover Building and ask if Billy’s death was related to the assassination attempt. The FBI would probably say no—but the conspiracy theories would begin to bloom.

The good news was that DeMarco was fairly certain by the tone of the article that he wouldn’t likely be hearing from the police again. By now six other murders had already occurred in southeast D.C. and the weary detectives manning that bloody sector had no time to waste on an innocent, if mysterious, bystander.

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