KIERAN RAISED THE SHOTGUN and fired the moment he saw the inspector. He didn’t care that he was shooting an unarmed man in the back, that didn’t matter to him, all that did was increasing his chances of getting away, and he was prepared to do anything to manage that. The blast took Harrison in the back and sent him sprawling. He hoped the shot had killed Harrison, but it was enough to have another of his would-be captors out of action.
He looked around quickly for some sign of the two constables he had seen when he looked out of his sister’s bedroom window; when he didn’t see them, he assumed they were using one of the cars in the yard for cover.
He didn’t care as much about the constables as he did Mitchell and the inspector, so he ignored them for the moment and retreated into the hous
