Townsend,” came a voice that made Abe realize he wasn’t dreaming, but in fact had answered the phone. Abe pulled his sheets into a ball under his chin with one hand as if to protect himself from the hostile voice that had awakened him on the other end of the phone. He looked at his clock again that read a quarter past six in the morning and wondered if Chief Rich was putting clues together like a puzzle at this hour, or was this part of his terrorist tactics to catch him off guard. “I got a four-week-old case and two people of interest, who happen to be ministers, trying to get a guest spot on Letterman by making appearances in every daily paper and dish ’em show out there.” Abe swallowed hard at Chief Rich’s reference to Harvest’s recent ‘Feed the Streets’ campaign, which was highlighted in the Metro section of The Washington Post, and the Sunday local magazine, Parade. He knew he was pressing his luck when those articles subsequently translated into a remote interview on the 5:00 P.M.
