“Your point?”
“My point, Detective,” she went on, “is that Slade chose a girl not six months out of training to take on one of the most high-risk assignments imaginable and then failed to send her any backup for several weeks.
“Then you have Breslan: a man who had every opportunity to incarcerate a known arms dealer and deliberately stalled. Why? Jack made several requests to know the reason for his delays and got nothing but silence for his trouble.
“This leaves me with a very unsettling question in the back of my mind: what does Petrov know that I"m not supposed to find out about?”
The detective sat down on the stool next to her, hunching over. He planted elbows on the counter and laced fingers over the top of his head. “This might seem obvious, but have you considered asking him?”
