After the meeting with the Washington agents, Bannister returned to the task force. Agents Ramirez and Campbell were standing near their desks. Mercedes Ramirez and Ford Campbell were rookie agents who had been assigned to the task force six months earlier. Derek Barnes, a gruff and salty senior agent on the team, assigned nicknames to all new agents. He obviously didn’t care whether they objected or not. Ramirez and Campbell were dubbed the “Pit Crew” because they both had car names, and both were assigned a lot of dirty work the senior agents didn’t want to do.
Stu Peterson came out of his office. “Ty, grab your notebook and follow me down to Witt’s office.”
“What’s up?” Bannister asked as they walked toward the elevator.
“A new case. Witt just took a phone call and asked me to assign
