He'd never given chase to a squad car before. He'd never expected to. It was a new experience. But tonight was a night of a lot of firsts. He'd never shot a kid for instance. But the little girls were as bad as their mamas, he'd found that out the hard way stepping out into a pack of them and got a screwdriver stuck in his leg for his trouble. The wound was just a flesh wound but when she'd raised it again going for his chest and the little girl beside her started swiping at him with the broken bottle, he'd shot them both and got the hell back in the car before the rest of them could get into the act. And now they were chasing a squad car. It was nuts. The car swung west on 46th, fishtailing like a sonovabitch. Horgan pulled them neatly around and gained on her a bit. Lederer sat with his .38 in his lap watching her long dark hair tossing in the wind through the open window, waiting for a halfway decent shot at her.
