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“Your blood test cas or alcohol in your system You were flat-out sober when you told this officer of the SFPD that you bombed Sci-Tron That was yesterday

“Noe have a search warrant and we’re going to take your house apart, board by board, until we find evidence When that happens, you’re cooked, and I think you know it”

Brady retrieved his chair and sat back down

“Now look,” he went on “Twenty-five people have died, e you with twenty-five counts of et out, and the entire city and the whole country are going to be calling for your blood

“You want to live, Connor? You help us, we help you If you coet the DA to waive the death penalty No proht here is your last best chance”

Grant’s cuffs clanked as he shrugged I kneas co

“I want a lawyer,” said Connor Grant, the er appeared insane He looked uards yanked him out of his chair and took him back to his cell

CHAPTER 12

BRADY AND I returned to the squad roo like we had been knocked out in the first round

I was ht Brady felt even worse

He said, “I shouldn’ta lost it”

“Nothing would have worked”

“So has to”

He stomped off to his office I stopped at the front of the roo, tilted so that everyone in the squad rooh the sound was off, the pictures spoke without using words

Thousands of people were banked outside the barricades on the Embarcadero that had been set up to preserve the cris of broken hearts The ca faces to the charred remains of Sci-Tron The headline across the top of the screen was ANOTHER GAR STRIKE?