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TIMELY PROMOTIONDetective
Superintendent Pat McCormack read the papers in front of him once more, trying
to make sense of what they said.
No,
no, no this couldn’t ‘t be true…surely the scale of this thing made it
impossible? There must be a mistake. And if so, a horrifically embarrassing
one. His inspector had handed over the file with a sigh of relief. If what the
papers showed was correct, the level of wrong-doing was far beyond his pay
grade.
The
superintendent oversaw the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad, a team of officers
who found crimes against capitalism far more thrilling than those against the
body, though money motivation often facilitated the latter. Fraud had many
degrees, from the small business whose book-keeper kept two sets of records, to
wide-scale, compa
