Sixteen
He put down the paper. The article on page three, which described the police raid on the drug exchange in a derelict building on Long Street, did not mention any connection between the drug dealers arrested and the deaths of homeless men in the building.
He poured himself a whisky and wondered what the police were thinking, if they thought at all. He picked up the paper and read the article again. He was intrigued by the very fact of the raid as, according to the journalist, the Westies had been operating their drug exchange in the building for more than twelve months without any effective police interference. He smiled at the self-serving sanctimonious tone of the journalist, who had taken the police to task for their failure to shut the place down sooner. He knew from his own e
