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“Frigid. So look, Feeney said I should tell you we’ve still got some details to wrap up to close this case good and tight. International connections, the East Washington angle, a full sweep of staff at the Drake, coordinating cooperative investigations with CPSD.”
“It’ll take some time, but we’ll clean it up. Vanderhaven?”
“Still at large.” She sent Eve a sidelong look. “Waverly’s out of the health center. He’s cleared to be interviewed any time, and he’s already singing out names hoping for leniency. We figure he’ll spit out Vanderhaven’s hole. Feeney figured you’d want to take the interview.”
“He figured right.” Eve hopped off the glide, changed directions. “Let’s go kick some ass, Peabody.”
“I love when you say that. Sir.”
Loyalty in Death
J. D. Robb
Contents
prologue
chapter one
chapter two
chapter three
chapter four
chapter five
chapter six
chapter seven
chapter eight
chapter nine
chapter ten
chapter eleven
chapter twelve
chapter thirteen
chapter fourteen
chapter fifteen
chapter sixteen
chapter seventeen
chapter eighteen
chapter nineteen
chapter twenty
chapter twenty-one
chapter twenty-two
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Electronic edition: October, 2003
For Vanessa Darby because I really want to go to heaven
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
—Shakespeare
Politics, as the word is commonly understood,
are nothing but corruptions.
—Jonathan Swift
prologue
Dear Comrade,
We are Cassandra.
It has begun.
All we have worked for, all we have trained for, all we have sacrificed for is in place. A dawn after so long a twilight. The goals set over thirty years ago will be achieved. The promises made will be kept. And the martyr’s blood that was shed avenged at long last.
We know you are concerned. We know you are cautious. This is what makes you a wise general. Believe that we have taken your counsel and your warnings to heart. We do not break the moratorium on this righteous and bitter war with a battle we intend to lose. We are well-equipped, our cause well-financed, and all steps and options have been considered.
We send this transmission to you, dear friend and Comrade, as we joyfully prepare to continue our mission. Already, first blood has been spilled, and we rejoice. Circumstances have put an opponent in our path you would find worthy. We have attached to this transmission a dossier on Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the so-called New York City Police and Security Department so that you might familiarize yourself with this adversary.
Through the defeat of this enemy, our victory will be all the sweeter. She is, after all, another symbol of the corrupt and oppressive system we will destroy.
Your wise counsel directed us to this place. We have lived among these pitiful pawns of a weak-kneed society, wearing our smiling mask as we scorn their city and their system of