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Culverhouse found it difficult to contain his fury following the meeting with Hawes. These were the sorts of things that made modern policing so infuriating to him. That something as critical as a literal life-or-death situation could be reduced to a debate over budgets and political posts was absolutely exasperating.
It wasn’t like this back when he started working for the police. Back then, all you needed was an instinct (or your ‘copper’s nose’) and a way of convincing people to tell you the truth, and that was it. Nothing was computerised. Money didn’t come into it. And if a politician ever set foot within a hundred yards of a police station, it was to report that their house had been broken into. Now, though, it was all different.
He wondered what DI Jack Taylor, his mentor duri
