Its hard to describe — the way she dresses, the way she carries herself, the swing of her shoulders, the tilt of her chin. I think bad people are bad, Stone replied. I could make a case that you are one of them, but Ive come to think better of you. You watch too many cop shows, said Shoemaker. But while wecan make deceptive statements to you in an interrogation, we cant manufacture evidence.That would be a crime. The call was from a man whose voice was the human equivalent of a dangerous bridge. Very old. Unsteady.Is this Mr Conrad? No. Howd you like to be White House press secretary? He was deposited in a tiny, drab room, where he supposed women came to consult about having an abortion. Devine knew that this particular subject would be one in which no general consensus would ever be reached. But he could imagine people sitting here and making perhaps the most momentous and gut-wrenching decision of their lives. They cut to an anchorwoman:The police have made no statement yet, but our sources tell us that the victim was number nine on the hit list thats been in the news. If so, her name is Trisha Marshall, and shes a researcher at theNew Yorker magazine. Shes forty-nine, divorced with two college-age children, and a regular at the Rockefeller Center skating rink. Now, theres a pretty thought, Dino said. You being scalped at Turnbull& Asser. I forgot I have something to finish up, said Devine. Ill see you later. No. Did what exactly? Drinks on the front porch? Viv asked. So thats why Hancock was sicced on me so fast. Stamos might have learned from Sara that we had slept together. And then I show up asking questions. She tells Cowl, and Cowl gives marching orders to Hancock — or Bartlett, rather — to go play detective and find out what he can. And Stamos also told Cowl I had come back to the building that night and that the guard saw me. He checked the security log and there was my security card for the fifty-second floor. And then he sees my security card log-in and my face on the video on the night Sara died and plans to frame me. A sedan pulled up, and Ekman and Shoemaker climbed out. Devine ran over to them.I saw them pulling a body out of the pool when we passed by on the train. Is it... is it...? She laughed and it was a nice, throaty laugh. She sipped her Cosmo and gave him a look that he couldnt quite decipher. And you know that, how? Dino asked. But the two bodies in the bed? It had sickened him, shaken him right to his core. He was no longer in a war zone, but it felt like he was..