Jeffery Deaver - The Broken Window

Pulaski was breathing hard.

Whitcomb looked around again, fast, then back at the young officer. He kept the gun steady and it was clear he knew how to use it. “Are you fucking listening to me?”

“Goddamnit. I’m listening.”

“I don’t want this investigation to go any further. It’s time for it to stop.”

“Stop? I’m in Patrol. How can I stop anything?”

“I was telling you: Sabotage it. Lose some evidence. Send people in the wrong direction.”

“I won’t do that,” the young officer muttered defiantly.

Whitcomb shook his head, looking almost disgusted. “Yes, you will. You can make this easy or hard, Ron.”

“What about my wife? Can you get her out of there?”

“I can do anything I want.”

The man who knows everything…

The young officer closed his eyes, grinding his teeth together the way he’d done as a kid. He looked at the building where Jenny was being held.

Jenny, the woman who looked just like Myra Weinburg.

Ron Pulaski now resigned himself to what he had to do. It was terrible, it was foolish, but he had no choice. He was cornered.

His head down, he muttered, “Okay.”

“You’ll do it?”

Former attorney and folksinger Jeffery Deaver is the best-selling author of a dozen suspense novels and numerous short stories. He has been nominated for an Edgar Award three times and is a two-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readers’ Award for best short story of the year. The London Times has called him the “best psychological thriller writer around.” He makes his home in Virginia and California. The Bone Collector , the first Lincoln Rhyme thriller, is soon to be a feature film from Universal Pictures.