He’s been part of my life so long, I can’t imagine what it would be like if he was gone. Arrested. Dead. Whatever. What happens when David Burns finally gets what’s coming to him? You might call it an obsession. Maybe it is at that. Something passed down to me from Ernie, who had formed his own obsession with Dundee’s ‘Godfather’ following the force’s attempts to strike a deal with the old bastard in the mid-nineties. Ernie had been the go-between, something he’d never been happy about. It was an assignment that would colour the rest of his life. I often wondered if he’d passed the obsession on to me. A kind of legacy. Those old photographs. Showing Burns in happy little domestic scenes with one of the Disappeared. Walking the beach with a child and his mother. Acting like a genial old man. A friend. A neighbour. Griggs presenting them to me because he knew I couldn’t resist. Burns had never been part of the original investigation into Alex Moorehead. And even though I knew that Griggs was pointing me towards the big man for his own reasons, there was still the possibility of finding something that we had overlooked.
What do You think about 04-Mothers Of The Disappeared?
