"Then you will find that the incinerator room down this hallway is remarkably efficient at erasing men who refuse to cooperate with Vesper."
Rafael's whisper echoed off the cold stone walls of the subterranean corridor, icy and unyielding. The police captain pressed himself backward against the damp masonry, his chest heaving as terror replaced his initial defiance.
"You are insane," the captain rasped, his voice trembling as he looked into Rafael's empty, silver-gray eyes. "You cannot execute an officer of the municipal force without triggering an absolute crackdown on Pier 14."
"An official inquiry requires an identified target," Rafael replied smoothly, stepping back to adjust the cuffs of his dark jacket. "A captain who disappears after pocketing unregistered bribes leaves behin
