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"Maoodness, Em, I’m sorry Look, there’s Rao to Bunratty"

They left Drorounds an hour later, a picnic basket packed in the backseat beside E else, because the Irish, Molly said, evidently didn’t believe in mayonnaise or mustard or tomatoes or lettuce They did, however, have potato chips And lots of local cider

The lanes were so narrow that if another car caes, Emma called them, and park until the other car passed "I’ side," Ramsey said as they passed a car on a turnout "In the east of Ireland there are lots et over Dublin way, you’re pretty s"

There was only one tour bus parked at Bunratty They had nearly the entire shaded park to themselves Emma climbed the castle’s main stairs all on her own

"WE think we’ve found hiripped the phone tight It was ton, DC Savich said again, "Raot a poor connection?"

"No, it’s fine You really found him, Savich?" "Yep Well, we don’t have him in the slammer yet, but we knoho he is His name’s John Dickerson, aka Sonny Dickerson, aka Father Sonny He’s forty-eight years old, an ex-priest, finally booted out by the Church because he’d been so flagrant that the good bishops and the cardinal had to oust him You remember how they used to just ship the pedophile priests fro sent the offending priest off for spiritual and psychological rehabilitation?"

"Yeah Thank God the Church now hands them over to be prosecuted"

"Yes, once they realized there were no cures This guy was so over the edge that at the last parish they sent him to the people found out about him within a week of his arrival Unfortunately, he had tiirl while herrehearsal going on at the sa out when they heard the ot an eyeful He was in prison until about a year ago He was supposed to register when he got out, but he didn’t He’s been a fugitive, but no one ever really tried to find hier cases, until now"

"Does he look like Eot a surprise for you I inputted the police sketch, just as if it were a photograph, into e call the Facial Recognition Algorithraot it from a friend who helped develop it for Scotland Yard I’veon it for the FBI We’ve already uploaded photographs of every convicted child roups of violent felons too

"With MAXINE’s help, we treated the police sketch like a photograph and ran the prograram does is compare the photo, or the sketch in this case, to the photos in the database It coth of the nose, the exact size of the upper lip, the distance between various facial bones, you get the idea Since MAXINE and I are pretty flexible, we ed to make the comparisons and came up with a list of a couple of hundred who reseroup in under an hour He fits all the other characteristics: he’s a heavy smoker, has rotten teeth, drinks too ht months His prison records indicate he refused any dental care He said, and I quote: ’I won’t have any of those drill-wielding assholes in my mouth’ He’s a real hard case, Ramsey, real hard They only let him out because they didn’t have a choice"

"Did he irls?" Savich said, "Evidently he didn’t have a particular preference, at least then Obviously if Shaker hired hi Louey into line, he’s no longer on Shaker’s payroll since Louey’s dead, and since Eet away froine that Shaker would ever want to see this guy again, unless it was to have a little talk with him No way Shaker kneas a child molester when he hired him to kidnap Emma"

"So what Father Sonny did in San Francisco was all on his own" Savich paused a ht from under your nose That’s really out of control"