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“You did what?” Collins’ voice was loud enough to be heard by anyone passing his office.
Burke repeated what he had just told Nathan and the DCI, both of whom were looking at him as though he had lost his mind.
“And Silvester fell for it?” Nathan asked. “He actually believed you have copies of emails, and tapes of phone calls, and are prepared to give them to the Larsson family so they can sue the paper?” When his friend nodded, he laughed. “I don’t have a high opinion of him, but I wouldn’t have thought him stupid enough to believe that. At the least, he should have known that you’re not the sort of guy to pass illegal copies or recordings of police communications to anyone for any reason, least of all for the sake of a civil action.”
“Tell me about it. I was sure he’d call my bluf
