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Jim finished his fourth coffee before Owen Keating reappeared, accompanied once again by DS Burke and the two constables. Keating had been in the bank for longer than he had expected, prompting Jim to wonder what had happened in there; he quickly pushed aside both his curiosity and his concern and focused his attention on the briefcase in Keating’s hand.
There was nothing out of the ordinary about the briefcase, it was no different to the sort carried by thousands of businessmen and women every day around the country, if you discounted the metal chain securing it to Keating’s wrist. Despite the ordinariness of the case, Jim’s eyes bore into it, as if he could see through it to the money he knew was supposed to be inside – three point five million Euros in five hundred Euro notes, roug
