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The other cop considered htfully for a second and then nodded solemnly “It looks that way”

“You’re looking at Roark for the rest of the ht?” ”

His jaw started to tick furiously “We put it together Too late Conner has a stellar reputation in our division He was a ot out of the service he worked for Border Patrol He was always our go-to guy until all this stuff broke loose with Novak We didn’t realize the correlation until it was too late A few years ago he started taking a real interest in as going on here in the Point, started asking to be assigned to cases that were here When you got the feds involved to take down Novak, he was the first one that wanted in on the action”

No one wanted to get involved with the Point We were a lost cause down here in the gutter All the warning bells that had been jangling that Roark’sRace and Nassir he didn’t appreciate the loud and clear in my ears “Don’t you have to be an American citizen to be in the marshals? Roark’s Irish”

“His mom is Irish Conner has dual citizenship”

“What about his dad? What’s the story there?” I knew from firsthand experience with my brother just how iood place to start digging

“Not sure He always said his oldwith his ot Conner every summer, but who knows if it’s the truth or not Turns out Conner is an exceptional liar Now that we’ve done so, it looks like while he was a member of Border Patrol after he left theNovak and several of his associates s across the border Conner’s been dirty a really long ti him to this case”

I frowned and asked hiive me the man in Colorado’s name The older man scribbled a quick note on a loose piece of paper on ent suddenly start helping a known crial stuff across the border? Money? Did Novak threaten him?”

The older man shook his head “I don’t know We need to find Conner to ask him that”

I wasn’t patient enough for that I was ivewith Roark and help ure out what it was

“He burned down the Pit He beat the crap out of one of the working girls that’s been around these parts a long tie on the people of the Point by hitting theured out that he was involved with Hartman’s murder, and ran”

“Why did she run to you? The evidence see awfully chummy Just one more rule that bastard broke”