Second Horseman Out of Eden
“CREDIT Detective Lieutenant Malachy McCloskey: the gray-haired, scar-faced man might be decidedly sour, insecure, resentful, and even downright bone-headed, but his heart was still alive and in the right place. When I had finished explaining what we were up to and why we were in such a hurry, how Craig Valley had almost certainly been connected to the sample of Amazon rain forest soil found in a letter sent to Santa Claus by a sexually abused child, the man's craggy, pitted face was ashen, his ...black eyes misty with tears. He had children of his own — seven of them, as well as two grandchildren who were probably around the same age as Vicky Brown.
"Jesus Christ," McCloskey said in a husky voice. "Forget what I said before, about you two messing up the scene and all that; if I'd been in your place, and it had taken the cops forty minutes to get here, I'd probably have torn the whole house apart." "There's nothing here," I said. "We went through all the paper we could find, but if he wanted to keep the dirt — or anything else — a secret, I doubt he'd have written anything down.MoreLess
"Jesus Christ," McCloskey said in a husky voice. "Forget what I said before, about you two messing up the scene and all that; if I'd been in your place, and it had taken the cops forty minutes to get here, I'd probably have torn the whole house apart." "There's nothing here," I said. "We went through all the paper we could find, but if he wanted to keep the dirt — or anything else — a secret, I doubt he'd have written anything down.MoreLess
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