Chapter 28
(3 p.m., May 30, 2014, Seattle Examiner conference room)
Mac walked into the executive conference room, uninvited. If they didn’t like it they could fire him. Because if this went south, he’d be out a job in short order anyway. He took the empty chair at the end of the table next to the door opposite the trinity: publisher, executive editor, managing editor. Steve Whitaker was to his left, next to the ME; Janet to his right next to the Exec.
“I apologize for coming in uninvited,” Mac started. “But in the last few weeks I’ve learned some things — besides the scary rise in anti-government extremists — that I thought you should know. A friend told me a newspaper has just as active a gossip grapevine as the cop shop does, and if I thought it was important to know cop gossip, I sh
