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“Can you get me a warrant?”

“Coh the minute you called in He says to pick him up Murder One, three counts”

She let out a slow breath “Where do I find him?”

“He’s at the Senate building, hawking his Morals Bill”

“Fucking perfect I’m on my way” She switched off, turned to Roarke “How o?”

“We’ll find out”

If Whitney’s orders hadn’t co her to be discreet, Eve would have marched onto the Senate floor and cuffed him in front of his associates Still, there was considerable satisfaction in the way it went down

She waited while he completed his impassioned speech on the moral decline of the country, the insidious corruption that ste He expounded on the lack of ion in the home, the school, the workplace Our one nation under God had becoht to bear arures on violent cris, all a result, the senator clai ence in sexual freedom without responsibility

It made Eve sick to listen

“In the year 2016,” she said softly, “at the end of the Urban Revolt, before the gun ban, there were over ten thousand deaths and injuries froh of Manhattan alone”

She continued to watch DeBlass sell his snake oil while Roarke laid a hand at the base of her spine

“Before we legalized prostitution, there was a rape or attempted rape every three seconds Of course, we still have rape, because it has ures have dropped Licensed prostitutes don’t have pimps, so they aren’t beaten, battered, killed And they can’t use drugs There was a tinancy When they had to risk their lives or ruin theineering and the research it made possible to repair in vitro It’s not a perfect world, but you listen to him and you realize it could be a lot worse”

“Do you knohat theto do to him when this hits?”

“Crucify him,” Eve murmured “I hope to God it doesn’t make him a martyr”

“The voice of thewith prostitutes, co murder I don’t think so He’s finished” Roarke nodded “In more ways than one”