Shank shook his head. “I thought I made it clear. Nobody knows I’m with the Bureau—I’m here undercover.” “You went undercover as a cop?” asked Father, incredulous. “I went undercover,” said Shank, “because the guy we picked up out in the field there is on the force in Downy.” “You knew he was—” “We believed that the buck kept stopping in Downy, North Carolina, and somebody on the job was running interference for these bastards. The State Bureau of Investigation wanted to send in a team to conduct a big open investigation, but kidnapping is a federal crime and I bigfooted them into getting out
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Undercover as a cop to catch bad cops
