Chapter 30Riley programmed the University of Illinois hospital into the satellite navigation and accelerated out of the parking garage at a rate any law-abiding citizen would consider reckless. The computer estimated that he would arrive in thirteen minutes, but with the light bar on, he would be there in under ten. A bullet to the shoulder isn’t necessarily a particularly serious wound, but Riley made a point of always visiting agents in the hospital, and an agent arriving there by means of an ambulance ride always caused significant concern. Riley was the kind of agent who rode his subordinates hard and demanded the best out of them, but when any of his agents were in danger, he dropped whatever he was doing to help them as best he could. Even if there was nothing he could do other than
