Contents ( 83)
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
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- TWENTY-FIVE
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY-ONE
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- FIFTY
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- FIFTY-SIX
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- FIFTY-EIGHT
- FIFTY-NINE
- SIXTY
- SIXTY-ONE
- SIXTY-TWO
- SIXTY-THREE
- SIXTY-FOUR
- SIXTY-FIVE
- SIXTY-SIX
- SIXTY-SEVEN
- SIXTY-EIGHT
- SIXTY-NINE
- SEVENTY
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- SEVENTY-TWO
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- SEVENTY-NINE
- Acknowledgements
- OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK
‘Because Colliver’s telling the truth?’
Too obvious, Michael thought. A swing and a miss.
‘Tell me why that is,’ he said.
‘Because it explains why the circumstantial evidence is so compelling against Kash. His name wasn’t even on the radar before Colliver made his statement. There’s no other reason to mention him except that it’s true.’
‘Are you sure about that?’
‘I’m guessing from your tone that I shouldn’t be.’ Draper smiled. ‘What’s your take on it?’
‘My take is that O’Driscoll didn’t kill the Galloways alone. No one man can have killed them both. Not the way they died. It was a two-man job. Two-man minimum.’
‘Then surely that points more closely to Kash? It’s exactly what Colliver’s saying.’
‘It points more closely to someone, Jenny. Anyone. What it says is that there were numbers. Someone with O’Driscoll. Colliver knows that. Especially if Colliver was the second guy.’
Draper leaned forward. Her mind was swiftly processing Michael’s theory.
‘So you think that Colliver had to offer up another name? That he’s telling the truth about O’Driscoll, but that Kash has been pulled in to fill a Colliver-shaped gap in the story?’
‘Exactly.’
Michael was impressed at how succinctly Draper had distilled the point. A natural advocate. The way she put it, she almost sounded like she agreed with him.
‘Food for thought,’ Draper said, once again sitting back into her chair. It wasn’t quite acceptance of Michael’s new theory. Which in itself was a good sign. She continued. ‘But of course it means that our best defence is that our co-defendant is guilty and lying. And that the primary prosecution witness is also guilty and lying.’
‘I didn’t say it was simple.’ Michael could not miss Draper’s amusement. Hell, he shared it. ‘Could be fun though.’
‘It’ll be fun to watch, that’s for sure,’ Draper replied. ‘Suddenly I’m glad that it’s you and not me who’ll be speaking in this trial.’
‘Thanks for the vote of confidence. There is one small problem with all of this, though.’
‘What?’
‘Kash.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘I mean that at the moment he won’t say a word against O’Driscoll. And we can’t say or do anything that he tells us not to.’
‘So we can’t attack O’Driscoll? Which means we can’t say that Colliver is telling the truth about him but lying about Kash. To cover his own involvement, or for any other reason. Doesn’t that kind of undermine the approach you want us to take?’
‘You could say it undermines it. Probably more accurate to say it destroys it, though.’ Michael was still smiling. ‘But of course, that’s only if Kash sticks to his guns.’
‘You think he might not?’
‘I think there’s every chance of that. Which is where you come in, Jenny. I want you working on him. Every day of the trial. Until he gives us what we need to take out Colliver and O’Driscoll.’
‘You want me to manipulate our client?’ Draper sounded shocked. It was another first, Michael was sure. ‘You want me to make him change his instructions?’