“So you’re saying a cop did this?” Brant asked.
Steel shook his head. “No she wasn’t a cop, she was... something else. Someone else. She works for that organisation I told youabout. The Chief knew way too much for them to let him live.”
Steel noticed the headline on Tooms’s newspaper that was rolled up under his arm. He only saw a few words but he could guess the rest.
“So I guess Chief Doyle made the front page after all,” Steel said coldly.
“Did he tell you what happened, why he did it?” Brant asked, hoping to have some sort of explanation for the new Chief of Police. Steel thought for a moment and then shook his head.
“He didn’t say anything we didn’t already know. He did confirm it was the other organisation responsible though,” Steel lied.
He couldn’t tell them about the girl or anything else the Chief had surprised him with. It wouldn’t be long before CSU and the ME would be down to do their jobs. Soon after that he would be in front of Internal Affairs having to explain how this had happened.
“Why did you leave the room?” McCall asked. “Was it because of something he told you?” She was confused: normally Steel would be in there until the perp had told his life story and more. That was one thing he was good at—getting people to talk. But he had left to get some fresh air? Things didn’t add up for her.
“I couldn’t look at him anymore,” Steel went on. “He had done so much to so many people just to get power which he later abused.”
The others could feel his anger. The powerful man who had sworn to uphold the law had abused it in the worst possible way and had nearly got away with it. If the bus crash had worked according to plan, none of these things would have come out.
The group stood to the sides as the medical examiner and the CSU team came down from the elevator and began their investigation. Steel moved to a quiet part of the corridor and spoke to an investigator from internal affairs who needed to hear Steel’s side before he got CSU’s version of events.
“Detective Steel, this is Detective King.” Brant introduced the two detectives. Brant had requested a male investigator so that the investigation could be shown to be impartial and fair. Steel shook the man’s hand, he had no dislike or bad feeling towards him or his job.
“Hi, I’m John Steel.” Steel gave the man a once over as they shook. The man was in his late thirties with a military presence about him: straight backed, and with his head held high. Steel assessed him as an ex-Marine, or likely to have belonged to another of the world’s Special Force units.
“Detective Arthur King,” the man said in a deep gravelly voice.
Steel raised an eyebrow and bit his lip. He so wanted to say something but thought it best not to. He would save it for later.
*
Tony Marinelli walked into the little observation room next to the interrogation room just to get some space. He couldn’t believe what was going on, how things had fallen apart as they had. Tony walked around the room with his hands holding the back of his head with knotted fingers. He breathed out a lungful of air and looked through the two-way mirror at the CSU team as they took samples and photographs. Suddenly a flashing red LED light caught the corner of his eye. Tony turned towards the monitors that were normally on to show that the interrogation was being filmed. The monitors were turned off, but the cameras were not. Tony smiled as he realised that the whole interview between Steel and Chief Doyle had been taped, and this could prove Steel’s story or contradict it. He traced the hard drive to a server upstairs and took down the number of the camera.
Upstairs Tony had found the feed to the cameras in the interrogation room. As he watched, he saw Steel leave the room, but moments later a woman came in. The Chief struggled to get away as she started to fix a silencer on to her weapon.
The hairs on the back of his neck began to tingle as she moved up to the camera and blew a kiss before she put a bullet between Chief Doyle’s eyes.
Tony looked blankly at the screen as if it didn’t compute what he had just seen. Steel would be cleared with this evidence. However, Tony had listened to the audio. He looked over towards the captain and the others who were making their way into Brant’s office. Tony made two copies of the tape and locked them inside his top drawer.
He sat for a moment watching the group through the window, his gaze fixed on Steel.
“Who are you, Mr Steel?” he wondered. “Who are you really?”
Other Books in the series.
Rise of a Phoenix
When a female lawyer is found murdered Detective Samantha McCall picks up the case.
Unknown to her a mysterious stranger is also on the hunt.
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Operation:Unity
Detective John Steel is on his most dangerous case yet.
As he travels back to New York on a cruise liner he soon discovers
there may be more to the ship and it’s passengers.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
THIRTY-FOUR
THIRTY-FIVE
THIRTY-SIX
THIRTY-SEVEN
THIRTY-EIGHT
THIRTY-NINE
FORTY
FORTY-ONE
Other Books in the series.
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