Chapter 11When they were out of earshot, Hiroshi said, “Now, what did we get out of that?”
“We’re warming up. Getting in character,” Takamatsu said, using badly pronounced English for the last phrase.
Hiroshi shook his head.
“Thanks for sticking me with the bill,” Takamatsu said, once they were out of earshot.
“I thought you had a budget?”
“I’m in trouble with the department accountant already.”
“I can’t believe you talked them into paying for this.”
“It was the foreign aspect that got them. Loss of face. They want this over.”
“Did you tell them we’d be going to hostess clubs?”
“I mentioned the suspect was a hostess, yes.”
“We’re looking for a tall woman with long hair who might be a hostess? That narrows it down to a million suspects in Tokyo.”
“Don’t be so pessimistic. You hav
