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“Through his contacts. They run the routes. But we haven’t been able to pin anything on him. It’s mostly guilt by association. He’s the man standing over the road with his hands in his pockets, whistling when the building on the other side blows up. He’s the one who visits Norfolk or North Yorkshire before or after a big job. It may mean nothing, but you asked, and he’s all we’ve been able to come up with. We don’t have time or the resources to scroll through the list of all the cars that left the A1 at the exit for your airfield, and nothing else has come up that sets off our radar. Sorry.”
“That’s OK,” said Banks. “It was a long shot. But I like the sound of this guy.”
“You’re welcome. Only too glad to help. I’m thinking maybe I should have waited until tomorrow morning to tell you, and I might have got a free lunch out of it.”
Banks laughed. “Maybe I’ll take you to di
“And pigs will fly.”
When Banks hung up the phone, he realized that he still felt some sort of co
Why did he seem to be letting everyone go? Why didn’t he make more of an effort to keep in touch with his friends? Sometimes he felt he had nothing to say, nothing to add to the lively company of a boozy evening in the pub. It wasn’t true, though; he always enjoyed himself when he made the effort; it had just got harder to make that effort.
Maybe he should have suggested that Joa
Besides, he needed his sleep if he was to be sharp for an early interview tomorrow.
He finished stripping the cellophane off the Bond movie and slipped it in the player. Easier just to give himself over to a fantasy world. While the preliminaries were showing, he went back into the kitchen and fetched the rest of the bottle of wine.
10
AS THINGS TURNED OUT, THE INTERVIEW WAS DElayed until Alex Preston had picked out Ronald Ta
According to his file, Ronald Ta
He selected Gerry Masterson to accompany him. She had the training but lacked the experience. After all, most interviews were carried out by detective sergeants and constables, and it was only at Banks’s own insistence that he had managed to keep his hand in all these years. Nowadays, there was even talk about training civilians to carry out police interviews in order to free up officers for other duties and show more of a presence in the communities and on the streets. Banks wasn’t too sure about that. Mostly, it was a matter of getting the experience, not being trained by a psychologist. He wasn’t as skilled in all the fancy modern psychological techniques as someone like Gerry would be, after all the courses she had done, but he usually knew how to get what he wanted out of someone without resorting to torture, which was, after all, the point of a police interview. However he proceeded, there was no chance of using the casual, friendly approach in the hope of getting Ta
They walked into the interview room at 9:35 a.m. Ta
Her name was Cassandra Wakefield, and she was one of the better-known advocates in the county. No lowly legal aid lawyer for Ta