46 10th October
Desmond Jordan had been stewing ever since the police officer had visited a couple of days earlier. He wasn’t used to having his integrity called into question. He’d always been a proud man; proud of his profession, proud of his work, proud of the way he conducted his life. He’d come a long way from humble beginnings, and he wasn’t going to forget that.
Besides which, that f*****g tart from over the road will have seen what was going on. He might well have come in an unmarked car and parked it up the side of the house, but that b***h never missed a trick. And hell, you could spot a copper a mile off around these parts, plain clothes or not. She was one of those women who needed to know everything that was going on. He knew she would’ve been straight on the phone to her cr
