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“One second,” she said “I’ Let me hand you to Detective Bennett”

“Who is it?” I asked, holding her BlackBerry against h

“Bassman”

“Gee, thanks,” I said, lifting the phone “Bennett here What’s up, Detective?”

“Hey, where’d you guys go?” Bass all around for you”

Yeah, right, I thought We’d been sitting there for hours, twiddling our thuuess was that he’d somehow heard about our reservation and had finally cooose chase, no doubt The cartels were blowing people away, and the only thing Bassuy was the full package, a complete ass

“I don’t kno they do things in New York, Bennett, but this task force is a teauy arrested for DUI involving a fatality swears he saw Perrine t

his uys run down to the hospital and talk to him”

“Hospital?”

“Yeah, he’s in the psycho wing at the Metro State Hospital in Norwalk Apparently, this guy is on speed or ecstasy or so”

I knew it The task force was getting thousands of useless calls a day about Perrine’s locale, and here Bassed out of his reen velvet bumblebee over a rainbow, no doubt

Whatever, I thought Tom Cruise would have to eat his Kobe fillet without us We had to start somewhere

“No problem Hit me with the address”

Bass As if I’d actually give hi

“Here you go, Bennett Ready? I’ll o real slow so you can type it clearly into the GPS”