“Don"t kick yourself too hard, Mr. Pearce,” Ross tried to be sympathetic to the man"s pain. “You couldn"t have known just what they were doing if the reports you received were accurate and promising and even when they changed, you were still being kept up to date, but in your own words they just sounded a bit weird which you put down to their time spent in a pretty alien environment.”
“Thanks for the reassurance. Hey, I don"t suppose you"d let one of your people travel over there with me, would you?” I"d pay all the costs and it would be good to have an English speaking police officer with me when dealing with the Brazilian police, too.”
“That"s not really an option, Mr. Pearce. First of all my boss wouldn"t approve such a move, and secondly, I wouldn"t send one of my people there with n
