Chapter 1: VagrantWill
Reece wasn’t going to be here, but Sergeant William Grant was glumly going through the motions. Searching the empty munitions factory where the man had once worked was a very long shot. They had to check it out though and his team had drawn the short straw. The others had gone to visit the man’s mother again. Their murderer wouldn’t be there, either, but it had to be done. Procedure. Reece had gone to ground and they’d be lucky if they caught hair nor hide of him this side of the end of the world.
He sent Sedman and Triggs round to the front entrance with the big doors that opened on to the wharf and he took the side entrance. The brisk wind off the river cut through him like a knife, despite the early summer sun that had appeared as the smog dispersed. He was plea
