You don’t make the Murder Squad without having a world-class gift for finding creative ways to get under someone’s skin and wriggle around in there till they’d rip themselves open to get rid of you; without being ready and happy to do it, even if the witness you’re working on is a devastated kid sobbing her heart out for her da. I’m not the exception—and neither is Steve, much as he’d love to think he is. It’s not like I was shocked, the first time I realized that not all the lads save that talent for interviews. It gets to feel right on you, like the gun at your hip that leaves you lopsided
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