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“You bet This guy was a serious abuser, who continued to pay to have his body put back in shape This kind of cycle eventually takes its toll, but even at this rate, he likely had another twenty good years in him”

“Not anymore Thanks, Morse”

“Any chance of getting ot the connections,” he added with a wink

She sighed a little “I’ll see what I can do”

CHAPTER FOUR

The trip from Stiles’s rarified uptown air to Alphabet City’s aroma of overturned recyclers and unwashed sidewalk sleepers was s with their uniforlide-carts and serene air traffic for prefab, soot-scarred co maxibuses, and sly-eyed street thieves

Eve immediately felt more at home

Michael Proctor lived on the fourth floor of one of the units tossed up haphazardly after the devastation of the Urban Wars At election ti the area, lect, cri sector of the city

After the elections, the entire matter went back in the sewer to rot and ripen for another term

Still, people had to live soed bit parts and understudy roles couldn’t afford to pay

Eve’s initial background check revealed that Michael Proctor was currently six weeks behind on his rent and had applied for Universal Housing Assistance

Which meant desperation, she led, so sers of bureaucrats, they sturateful to find a bed in one of the shelters

She i into Draco’s bloody shoes would considerably up Proctor’s salary Money was an old motive, as tried as it was true

Eve considered double-parking on Seventh, then, spotting a parking slot on the second level street side, went into a fast vertical lift that had Peabody yelping, and shot forward to squeeze in between a rusted sedan and a battered air bike

“Nice job” Peabody thuain