Director Quinn had spent the entire drive over turning the problem inside his head, examining each angle the way a jeweler examines a flawed stone. By the time his car had rolled up the long gravel drive, he had settled on his line of attack. He would come at Ambrose Ward not on the facts, not on the man's competence, but on the question of jurisdiction. That was the soft seam in the armor. After all, the task force had been dispatched to investigate matters relating to Lakeport Properties. Reaching into the disciplinary affairs of cadres serving inside the Park, even cadres whose names had floated up out of that very same investigation, was, by any honest reading, playing in the gray.
"The problem with Maxwell Crawford was raised by personnel from within Lakeport Properties itself," Ambr
