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‘We’re not looking for a crocodile We’re looking for ten kilos of heroin, packed into a waterproof container,’ snapped Erika John looked back at her and nodded

’Sorry, Boss’

She checked her watch It was co up to three thirty

‘What’s that worth on the street, ten kilos?’ asked PC Barker, from his spot by the rudder

‘Four million pounds’

He whistled, ‘I take it, the container was dropped in deliberately?’

Erika nodded ‘The guy we’ve got in custody aiting for things to quieten down, before he came back for it…’

She didn’t add that they could only hold hiht hours

‘Did he really think he’d get it back? We’re an experienced dive teae,’ said Lorna

‘With fourto co to lift his prints off the plastic layers inside’

‘Hang on This could be so closer into the tiny screen where a sst a swirl of purple hues PC Barker switched off the outboardout, replaced by a swish of water as the boat slowed He got up and joined her at the screen

‘We’re scanning an area of four meters each side of the boat,’ said Lorna her s over a blob on the screen

‘So the scale is correct,’ agreed Barker

‘You think that’s it?’ asked Erika Hope rising in her chest

‘Could be,’ said Lorna ‘Could be an old fridge We won’t know for sure till we’re down there’

‘Do you dive too?’ Erika asked her, trying to stay positive

‘Yeah We take it in turns I was on a dive yesterday, and we have to have rest periods’

‘Where were you yesterday?’ asked John

‘Rotherhithe We had to recover a body from the lake at the nature reserve Suicide’

‘Whoa Ita body deep underwater?’

Lorna nodded, ‘I found hi in zero visibility and suddenly my hands close around a pair of ankles, and I feel up, and there’s the legs’

‘Jeepers Stood up, underwater?’ Said John

‘It does happen, soas in the body and the progress of decay’