44 “Get a move on,” Martins all but yelled into her radio at the driver of the van carrying the armed response team. She wasn’t sure what had happened exactly, but she had heard Melissa being told to drop the phone, and that worried her, especially now that the phone line had gone dead. She had no way of knowing what was going on at the station, and consequently no way of knowing if the constable was still alive. Of equal concern was the fate of Zack Wild. Melissa had said the former detective inspector was with her, but there had been no mention of him beyond that, and she had not heard him speak, which left Martins worried that Wild was already dead. While the two-vehicle convoy, which hardly warranted the word, raced through the darkness and the rain on its way to a confrontation wi

