The resulting conversation, after an interchange of greetings, made as little sense as one-sided conversations usually did, except that it was very apparent a favour was being called in, and that Mayo would appreciate the results of the tests and comparisons of the two bullets extracted from the two victims being on his desk as soon as possible. It didn’t actually sound like a request for a favour: from here, it sounded half-way towards an order, but presumably Geoff Blake didn’t see it like that. He said something which evidently restored Mayo’s equilibrium and made him laugh as he put the phone down.
He pushed himself away from the desk and paced about a bit with his hands in his pockets. ‘The press are going to have a bloody field day with this – three unexplained shootings in as many
