Richard
Will Stanton is apologetic. “Corby has been in our system for over twenty years….”
“And no-one ever made the connection?” asks Michael, voice flat.
Will holds up a hand. “Let’s say he’s made a good job of muddying the waters. Missing files, misreported conversations… not enough to ever ring the alarm bells but misinterpreted enough to misdirect efforts. And of course, work that he himself was assigned was either washed over or simply misreported.”
Michael’s’ face is a mask, but I know him well enough now to recognise the fury under there. Perhaps Will had made up some diplomatic ground with him by his co-operation in tracking down Charlotte’s family documents, but the involvement of a police officer - this police officer - in this next abduction, has soured the milk….
Elizabet
