29 The BetrayalThe week had passed slowly for Hunt and McCormack, who had spent most of their time banged up in the SCU offices in the basement of Scotland Yard. Both of their initial investigations had ground to a halt and now they had diverted their attention to two new cases. The first involved the contract killing of a man known as Burger Bill, the operator of many unlicensed fast food vans in the South East. The vans were operated by people who were claiming benefits or were asylum seekers and could therefore be blackmailed into working for a pittance. On the odd occasion that one of these employees became a liability they would be dealt with harshly. In the case of asylum seekers they usually ‘disappeared’. It seemed that there were plenty of people queuing up to kill Burger Bill, bu
