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Later that day, Steve and Frank had been in the stakeout house for almost two hours. The light was beginning to fade, and before long they’d have to switch from watching the camera footage on a screen in the upstairs bedroom and move to manual observation. They’d agreed that Frank would go first — or, rather, Frank had declared that there was ‘no bloody way’ he was going to wake up at two o’clock in the morning so they could swap.
The pair were more than used to sitting through hours of CCTV footage, but on most occasions it was a recording being replayed. They didn’t often sit in front of live footage, waiting for something to happen.
They’d both had a little grumble about Culverhouse, but nothing too excessive. He was usually right about these things and, in any case, they couldn’t
