Ragdoll (Fawkes and Baxter, #1)

by Daniel Cole

‘Look familiar?’ Simmons walked round to join Wolf by the chilly window and crouched down to better examine the dark face. After a few moments, he shrugged. ‘It’s Khalid,’ said Wolf. ‘That’s impossible.’ ‘Is it?’

‘It’s pointing into my apartment window.’

‘You want to do good, but you can’t unless you’re in power. You can’t stay in power without votes, and you only get votes by appeasing the public. But then, sometimes appeasing the public requires you to sacrifice the very good that you had set out to achieve. It’s a funny game, politics.’

Just as she drew level with it, at forty-nine miles per hour, she could have sworn that she saw it move.

‘That there are no “good” people. There are just those who haven’t been pushed far enough yet, and those that have.’