The Squad Room: A Novel by Cutter John & Nivakoff Robert

Author:Cutter, John & Nivakoff, Robert [Cutter, John & Nivakoff, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime
ISBN: 9780825307201
Amazon: B086HSCV2L
Goodreads: 54146721
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Published: 2016-04-18T07:00:00+00:00

Back at the BC dorm, all of the entrances were indeed well covered by the time Morrison and the rest of his team arrived. Morrison had occasion again to appreciate the BPD’s help: both his people and a number of Boston detectives were stationed inconspicuously around the whole building, and even with his trained eye, Morrison had to have a few of their surveillance spots pointed out to him.

Lieutenant Polk had been true to his word. Two blocks away, a BPD SWAT team was standing by in a tactical vehicle, and sharpshooters had been deployed to the roofs of two adjacent buildings, just in case. Morrison was hopeful that they wouldn’t be necessary, but knew from experience that the Lieutenant’s precautions were completely reasonable. Chance favored the prepared mind, as Morrison was fond of saying; and with every suspect—especially two whom they suspected of such heinous crimes as these—you had to expect the unexpected.

The hope was for one or both of the suspects to exit the dorm, where a group of NYPD and BPD detectives would approach them and try to persuade them to come back to D-14 voluntarily. Although no mention of a firearm had been made during any of their investigations, these two were suspected of being a couple of the most violent preppies ever to don an alligator shirt, and nobody knew what a knock at their dorm-room door might bring about. A lot of perps did extreme things when they found they were being brought to justice for the crimes they’d committed, and in a dorm setting, there was no telling how many people these two could hurt if they decided to go out in a blaze of glory.

After several hours had passed without movement on the part of their suspects, the decision was made to try to lure one or both of them out to Anderson’s car. Pat McNamara was the best voice actor among them, so he made the phone call to their room. Someone picked up on the second ring.

“Hello,” McNamara said, in a remarkably subtle Indian accent. “This is Dr. Patel from the Boston Health Department. Is this Mr. Brian Anderson?”

“No,” the voice on the other end replied flatly. “This is his roommate.”

“Do you know where Mr. Anderson is right now?” McNamara asked.

“Sure, he’s right here—hold on.”

McNamara gave a thumbs-up—both suspects were in the apartment. “Hello?” Anderson’s voice sounded nervous.

“Mr. Anderson, this is Dr. Patel from the Boston Health Department,” McNamara went on. “We need to see you as soon as possible. We have had one of your girlfriends here with a serious venereal disease, and it would be in your best interests if you could come in right away.”

“What? What do you mean, serious?”

“I’d rather not discuss it with you over the phone, Mr. Anderson.”

McNamara could practically hear Anderson quaking over the phone. “Is it—is it AIDS?”

“Again, Mr. Anderson, I’d really rather not talk about it over the phone. We need to see you in person.”

“Okay—okay. I’ll jump in the shower and be right down.

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