Together, they had chosen their “fall guy”; the man in whose name a deposit account had been established. In whose name they had conducted their illicit business.
In whose name a restaurant booking – the means by which their entire enterprise had finally come undone – had been made.
The whistle-blower.
Adam’s “source”.
Max Evans.
Bassington Town Hall had found itself at the centre of a scandal. The police descended on the offices of Archangel that same day, too; seizing computers, rifling through whatever corroborating paperwork they could find, and searching through years’ worth of company files in an attempt to uncover the scale and scope of Lambert’s financial misdemeanours.
Grainger had been arrested that morning; taken in for questioning as Council officials watched his public h
