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Parker took out her phone She set picked up
“What’s so funny, Agent P?” I asked
“This goose chase that jackass Bassman sent us on,” she said “How hilarious would it be if we just found the one that lays the golden egg?”
CHAPTER 48
AS IT TURNED OUT, we did strike gold out here in California
After Emily called back to the task force with our hunch, Bill Kaukonen, the LA County assistant district attorney on call, came to the hospital, and a deal was quickly struck
Captain Scricca et a suspended sentence and a six-month stint in rehab for his role in the vehicular homicide if his information led to the capture of Perrine
It was a sickening arrange woht But with Perrine out there trying to turn Southern California into the Vietnam War Part Two, it was easy to see that these were desperate times that called for some pretty desperate measures
After the ADA left, ent back into Scricca’s cell and got his stateist of it was that a little after noon, he had spotted Perrine in Marina del Rey, on a deep-sea fishing boat called Aces and Eights owned by a man named Thomas Scanlon Scanlon was a sketchy character, he said, and it was an al the fisher
Scricca’s story seemed to pan out further ent back up to our HQ at Oly Brother federal databases she was privy to
Scanlon was, in fact, a sketchy character In 1995, he had gotten booted fro test Soon after, Mr Scanlon’s passport started appearing in soe places: South America, the Netherlands, Central Africa, the Middle East It was a lot of world travel for a man who didn’t seem to have any visible means of support
“This guy was in Qatar for a year and a half,” Parker said over the diner takeout piled on our desks “When was the last time you went to Qatar, Bennett?”
“Went to Qatar?” I said, cracking the lid of my coffee “I can’t even play one”
“Then Scanlon just disappears off the grid for five years, and pow! Out of the blue suddenly pops up in SoCal as a deep-sea fisherman?” Parker said “How’s that work?”
“You’re right Overall, this guy seems pretty fishy,” I said