CHAPTER 10“Lucky perp,” Lieutenant Castillo was remarking. “He could have been badly injured, even killed.” His voice suggested that he wasn’t exactly relieved at this turn of fate.
There were those cynics among the force that would have happily suggested that such a course would have been preferable, saving the city an expensive trial and ensuring that justice had indeed been served. Frank was not one of those.
“A few bumps and scratches, some bandages. I’d say he was lucky indeed. Me too. I was about to draw my weapon on him. I knew that if he got away from me, he’d be in the wind for good.”
Castillo nodded seriously. “Always a bad thing when you have to fire your weapon, especially if it’s fatal. And shooting in the back, that’s worse. Inquests, all sorts of stuff, put you on leave w
