Blood Test
““I can’t take it any further,” he said apologetically.
“All we’ve got at this point is a missing persons squeal, and that’s stretching it.”
“I know. Thanks for coming down.”
“No big deal. It was a break from routine. Just so happens I’ve got a particularly cruddy routine right now. Gang shooting—two cholos blown away—liquor store clerk ripped with a broken bottle, and a real sweetheart—a rapist who shits on his victims’ abdomens when he’s through with them. We know he’s attacked at least seven ...women. The last one ended up more than defiled.”
“Jesus.”
“Jesus won’t forgive this creep.” He frowned and turned on Sawtelle toward Pico. “Each year I tell myself I’ve witnessed the depths of depravity and each year the scumbags out there prove me wrong. Maybe I should have taken the exam.”
Fifteen months ago he and I had exposed a prominent orphanage as a brothel catering to pedophiles, solving a handful of murders in the process. He’d been a hero and had been invited to take the lieutenant’s exam.MoreLess
“All we’ve got at this point is a missing persons squeal, and that’s stretching it.”
“I know. Thanks for coming down.”
“No big deal. It was a break from routine. Just so happens I’ve got a particularly cruddy routine right now. Gang shooting—two cholos blown away—liquor store clerk ripped with a broken bottle, and a real sweetheart—a rapist who shits on his victims’ abdomens when he’s through with them. We know he’s attacked at least seven ...women. The last one ended up more than defiled.”
“Jesus.”
“Jesus won’t forgive this creep.” He frowned and turned on Sawtelle toward Pico. “Each year I tell myself I’ve witnessed the depths of depravity and each year the scumbags out there prove me wrong. Maybe I should have taken the exam.”
Fifteen months ago he and I had exposed a prominent orphanage as a brothel catering to pedophiles, solving a handful of murders in the process. He’d been a hero and had been invited to take the lieutenant’s exam.MoreLess
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