Chapter Fifteen
To Rafferty’s disappointment, Gary Sadiq was still in England, staying with relatives in Birmingham. He’d rather fancied a free trip to India—apart from anything else, the necessity of making the expensive journey would upset Superintendent Bradley, not to mention giving him a couple of days’ break from Cyrus and his religious fervour.
But it wasn’t to be, so they battled their way up to Birmingham through the morning’s rush hour and a stop-start journey under a still-blazing sun to discover precisely nothing. Though, of course, the semi in Birmingham wasn’t Sadiq’s home. Maybe, if he could persuade Bradley to fund the trip he might yet find out something to his advantage on the sub-continent. But Gary Sadiq, when they saw him, was very circumspect and answered Rafferty’s
