Beads of sweat broke out on his top lip and he was beginning to hyperventilate. If this was how jittery he was on the phone to Mervyn Bates, what the hell would he be like in a face-to-face? Especially if he was wired up to record the conversation. She glanced at Bertie, who seemed to be thinking the same thing. But if they were going to take this forward, McGuire had told her, they’d have to allow the face-to-face with Dan and Mervyn.They’d discussed if it was time to get the police involved, and Rosie had considered phoning Don, her contact in Strathclyde Police, to alert his mates down in Scotland Yard. But it was too early, she told the editor. There were too many loose ends to bring in the police yet. The investigation would be taken out of their hands – and it could end up in the shredder, like the child-abuse investigation at the heart of it. This was a big story and it was theirs for the proving. Leave the cops out. McGuire agreed, but only with the proviso that the meeting took place over a coffee in the foyer of the Holiday Inn in Glasgow.
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