Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein

Author:Linda Fairstein [Fairstein, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, General
ISBN: 9780451413154
Google: 3dptkQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1410434923
Publisher: Signet Select
Published: 2011-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FIVE

“FORM your pods, guys,” Scully said. “Put your working groups together tonight, figure out a way to keep each other up to speed on anything you discover—one from each team who can be the contact person—and report to the first dep every couple of hours, even if to say you’ve got nothing new. Nobody talks to reporters except Guido. Nobody.”

“The vic’s uncle, Keith. He got any ideas?” Peterson asked.

“The usual. She’s had stalkers, hate mail from the faithful, and worse from the Vatican. He was keeping close tabs on her because she was getting overwhelmed by the way she’d been treated.” The commissioner was going in ten directions at once. “You’re not only looking for the perp himself—or maybe it’s more than one person. Find me an abattoir—a slaughterhouse, a cage of some kind, a basement or rooftop, maybe a commercial van he’s turned into his chop shop. Check for stolen vehicles. A place these killings happen without this bastard calling attention to himself.”

“One more thing, Keith, if you don’t mind,” the lieutenant said. He had earlier told Scully and the group about Mike’s coup on the Fordham campus. “Do like Chapman today. Think outside the box for a change.”

The sergeant from Mounted slapped Mike’s back. “He’s lived an entire life outside the box. That’s all this guy knows. Don’t start giving him credit for it.”

“This wasn’t my original plan for the six o’clock meeting,” Scully said. “But the ID changed the whole point of having you here. Let’s hit the ground running at daybreak.”

Mike, Mercer, Nan, and I huddled with Peterson. He wanted us to have someone familiar with the waterfront, at least two men from South, and anyone Chirico could spare from the Night Watch crew.

“Can you step out for a minute, Alex?” Scully asked.

“Of course,” I said more eagerly than I meant. I figured that he wanted to get some assurance from me that he—not Paul Battaglia—would be calling the shots in this investigation. “Nan too?”

“No. Just you.”

I looked over at my friend for support. She could do no more than raise her eyebrows.

Scully took me into the hallway and around the corner so our voices wouldn’t echo. “I need you to step down from this case, Alex.”

“I can’t believe you just said that. You’re joking, aren’t you?”

“You know me better than that. Step down. I don’t want any further discussion.”

“You don’t want to discuss this? Neither do I, Keith, because there’s really nothing to talk about,” I said, flailing my arms around more than I wanted to be doing. “I don’t work for you, Commissioner. You can’t give me an order like I’m one of your troops and think I’m going to salute you and slink away.”

I could feel the color rise in my cheeks as the anger swelled up inside me. I struggled to keep my temper under control.

“Don’t raise your voice to me, Alex.”

“What are you worried about? That Battaglia might hear you trying to take over his operation? Have you bothered to speak with him yet?”

“I don’t need to do that.

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