The federal building in lower Manhattan contained thousands of offices, thousands of people, thousands of ongoing investigations. Adrian was escorted to one of these offices to meet with the Internal Affairs Bureau, which had begun investigating the conduct of federal agents involved in the Elena Vasquez case.
Adrian was no longer being treated as a cooperative witness. He was now being treated as a potential co-conspirator.
"We've been reviewing the entire operation," Special Agent William Crawford said, reviewing documents in front of him. "And we've identified several irregularities in how federal authorities handled the investigation."
Crawford was a small man in his fifties with the meticulous demeanor of someone who'd spent decades uncovering institutional corruption. He gestured
