What the Fly Saw by Frankie Y. Bailey

Author:Frankie Y. Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466849105
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

26

McCabe checked the readout on the police frequency of her ORB. “Wayne Jacoby,” she told Baxter, who was driving. “Must be important, he’s on private comm.”

“You got something for us, Jacoby?” she asked when the PIO came into view. “Something happening with the media?”

“All hell’s breaking loose with the media, McCabe. What I want to know is why you didn’t give me a heads-up.”

“A heads-up about what? We’re on our way back from Kevin Novak’s funeral, but nothing happened there.”

“I’m talking about your brother.”

“My brother?”

“Dr. Adam McCabe. Recently stranded with other tourists on a resort island.”

“I told Lt. Dole about that in case I had to leave for some kind of emergency.”

“Howard Miller has been objecting to the use of government military resources to carry out the rescue.”

“I know that. He said the tourists on the island should pay for their own rescue.”

“Apparently, he had a closer look at the list of people rescued from the island. And he saw the name ‘McCabe’ and remembered that the lead detective in the Lisa Nichols murder case also had been named McCabe.”

“Oh hell!”

“And in his own inimical way, Miller managed to tie your brother’s presence among the well-heeled tourists President Kirkland was spending money to rescue from their resort island to the murder case in Albany involving the former fiancée of billionaire Ted Thornton.”

“Wayne, I’ll talk to you about this later. I have to try to reach Adam and warn him that the media—”

“Your brother already knows. The press was there when the rescued tourists got off the ship half an hour ago. They had no trouble recognizing your brother coming off in his wheelchair. They got some really prime footage of his glares and ‘no comments’ and then an especially nice sound bite when he told a reporter to shove it.”

“Oh, no.”

“That happened when the reporter asked him about being shot and paralyzed by a burglar, who his sister, even though she was only nine years old, had no hesitation about shooting and killing.”

McCabe cursed—a fluent, extended curse.

Jacoby chuckled. “Language seems to run in your family.”

“I didn’t learn that in my family. I learned it from the cop who was my field training officer. He advised me to save it for occasions that merited such self-expression. And this isn’t even slightly humorous, Jacoby. Right now, aside from my brother being harassed because of me, probably everyone from the mayor on down—”

“It isn’t that bad, McCabe. But it would have been nice if I had known we might get caught up in this.”

“I know. I’m sorry. I should have realized that if Howard Miller was complaining about the rescue, he would seize on anything that he could find to make it look even worse.”

“Well, at least, no one in the department—including you—did anything wrong. Now that I know what we’re dealing with, I can come up with a statement,” Jacoby said. “But you may have to tiptoe through this one with the commander. The mayor called him in after she saw Miller’s press conference.

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