Chapter 15
“He’ll live,” the surgeon told Lieutenant Richter and Hollis. “He was one lucky man that someone found him when they did. Another few minutes and he’d have been too far gone to save.”
“How soon before we’ll be able to talk to him?” Richter asked.
“At least twenty-four hours, maybe longer. He lost a lot of blood, obviously, and we had to do major surgery on the area where the perpetrator had begun trying to sever his arm. I guess the victim should be glad the man started with the arm and not his heart.”
One of the CSI team members came over at that point. “He had ketamine in his system,” he told Hollis.
“Score one for the home team,” Hollis said. “We, I wasn’t crazy after all.”
Richter caught the shift in pronouns and shot Hollis a look that said ‘We’ll talk later’. Hollis
