Chapter 34Baltic Sentinel
The full light of a sunny Liverpool afternoon was beginning to fade as an assortment of officers from the hastily assembled joint task force gathered at the prearranged time, in the inauspicious looking car park of The Happy Wanderer pub on Rice Lane in Bootle, not far from Gladstone Dock, to the south of Seaforth Dock, and far enough away so as not to cause any undue alert in the target area. Ross had chosen the pub due to the landlord being a former Merseyside police officer who was happy to be of help to his old colleagues.
Present at the gathering were Ross, Detective Sergeants, Izzie Drake, Paul Ferris and Sofie Meyer, and Detective Constables Sam Gable, Nick Dodds, Tony Curtis and Keith Burton. They were joined by Inspector Ben Jones of the Port Police, wi
