True Witness (2012)
“ventured DS Voss, in the tone of someone about to gamble with his life, “that Hood could be right? That it wasn’t Cochrane he saw?”
In his own way, Jack Deacon was as honest a man as Daniel. He didn’t make a fetish of it. He was happy for people to think of him as Jack-the-lad, a hard man, a believer in ends over means. But when the time came to give each thing its name he was as straight as a die. He didn’t bear false witness, even against those he knew deserved it; he didn’t use his fists unl...ess someone else started it; he didn’t massage the statistics by coaxing men who were going down anyway to have unsolved crimes taken into consideration. Brodie was right: he was a good policeman. By most definitions he was a good man. He just didn’t like word getting around.
He glared at Voss with an exasperation that the sergeant, who had been working for him for about a month now, was beginning to recognise as displacement activity for doubt. “You still haven’t read the CID handbook, have you?MoreLess
In his own way, Jack Deacon was as honest a man as Daniel. He didn’t make a fetish of it. He was happy for people to think of him as Jack-the-lad, a hard man, a believer in ends over means. But when the time came to give each thing its name he was as straight as a die. He didn’t bear false witness, even against those he knew deserved it; he didn’t use his fists unl...ess someone else started it; he didn’t massage the statistics by coaxing men who were going down anyway to have unsolved crimes taken into consideration. Brodie was right: he was a good policeman. By most definitions he was a good man. He just didn’t like word getting around.
He glared at Voss with an exasperation that the sergeant, who had been working for him for about a month now, was beginning to recognise as displacement activity for doubt. “You still haven’t read the CID handbook, have you?MoreLess
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