Blood Work by Michael Connelly

Author:Michael Connelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Los Angeles (Calif.), Private investigators, Serial murders, Mystery & Detective, Hard-Boiled, Fiction, Thrillers, General
ISBN: 9781742371665
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2009-07-15T22:11:29.429000+00:00

THE PACKAGE from Carruthers was waiting for McCaleb in his mailbox. It was as thick as a phone book. He took it back to the boat, opened it and spread the documents across the salon table. He found the most recent summary on the Kenyon investigation and began reading, deciding to learn the latest developments and then go back to read from the start. The investigation of the Donald Kenyon murder was a joint FBI�Beverly Hills police operation. But the case was cold. The lead agents for the bureau, a pair from the special investigation unit in Los Angeles named Nevins and Uhlig, had concluded in the most recent report, filed in December, that Kenyon had likely been executed by a contract killer. There were two theories as to who had employed the assassin. Theory one was that one of the two thousand victims of the savings and loan collapse had been unsatisfied with Kenyon�s sentence or possibly feared he would flee justice once again and therefore had engaged the services of a killer. Theory two was that the killer had been in the employ of the silent partner who Kenyon had claimed during the trial had forced him to loot the savings and loan. That partner, whom Kenyon had refused to identify, remained unidentified as well by the bureau, according to this last report. McCaleb found the outlining of theory two in the report interesting because it indicated that the federal government might now give credence to Kenyon�s claim that he had been forced to siphon funds from his savings and loan by a second party. This claim had been derided during Kenyon�s trial by the prosecution, which took to referring to this alleged second party as Kenyon�s phantom. Now, here was an FBI document which suggested that the phantom might actually exist. Nevins and Uhlig concluded the summary report with a brief profile of the unknown subject who had contracted the murder. The profile fit both theories one and two: the employer was wealthy, had the ability to hide his or her trail and remain anonymous and had connections to or was even part of traditional organized crime. Aside from the report breathing life into Kenyon�s phantom, the second thing that interested McCaleb was the suggestion that the employer, and therefore the actual killer, were connected to traditional organized crime. Traditional organized crime in FBI parlance meant the Mafia. The tendrils of the Mafia were almost everywhere, but, even so, the mob was not a strong influence in southern California. There was a tremendous amount of organized crime in the area, it just wasn�t being perpetrated by the traditional mobsters out of the movies. At any given time there were probably more Asian or Russian mobsters operating in southern California than their counterparts of Italian descent. McCaleb organized the documents in chronological order and went back to the start. Most were routine summaries and updates on aspects of the investigation that were forwarded to supervisors in Washington. Quickly

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