Sirocco suppressed a smile and recomposed his indifferent cop look.
There were more questions, but oddly, Brenner noted, the detective’s lines of inquiry weren’t geared to finding out if he had anything to do with the masked gunmen. It was Brenner’s opinion their goal wasn’t heisting ill gotten gains, but he kept that to himself too. A little more than three hours later, he was released. Brenner walked out of the busy precinct into the dwindling afternoon. A classic, well-maintained, grey and white Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, 19’63 model, pulled up in the street.
The older man from Carlos and Jane’s was at the wheel with Ella Navarro in the rear. “How about a ride, Ned?” she offered. The rear door was open.
“Why the hell not?” He got in, and the car drove off.
Brenner said, “Those hitters were after you, weren’t they?”
“Yes,” she answered, “we’ve concluded that was so. The three men in lockup are known muscle for hire.”
“But what we don’t know yet is whether this is from the past or concerning the latest case,” the driver said, turning back to look at Ned. His face pulsed from beneath the skin, the muscles and fatty tissue flowing as if made of slow motion lava. It took a lot to surprise Brenner, but he gaped as this happened.
“Wild,” he said. The driver was the man named Koburn.
“It gets wilder,” Navarro said, allowing herself a brief smile.
They finally arrived at a stretch of land in eyesight of the redeveloped Brooklyn Navy Yards. There were low slung brick buildings with faded names on their sides. The car stopped at a riot gate and the entrance slid open. The Rolls was parked, and they walked up to a non-descript two-story building. A large faded logo painted over the entrance proclaimed this building to once have been the Haverstam Baking Company.
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