Mandy put the phone down, wishing she had kept the conversation going so she could hear her plonker of a man happy in the background. I’ll give this for Jack, she thought, when he bounces back, and she spent the rest of the morning, lunchtime and afternoon with a glowing sensation that made her want to step-in-time.
Jo-Jums led the team debrief, Paolo had wrapped up the skinheads, one or two leads but nobody was holding their breath. Chilly had caved when he learned the women were ready to testify; Mandy felt pleased Meesh could stay out of it. Jo-Jums had worked the conspiracy angle and determined there was a person or persons unknown who funded the skinheads, as well as an Islamic cell, maybe, as Jack had intimated, to generate street discord, codenamed Moriarty, currently reading Borat
