Chapter 70

“If it involves my boy, then it involves me.” I took the picture from Matheson. Fortunately, the man in the picture with him was Theo. “Are you sure you want this?” It wasn’t a very good likeness of him. He looked as if he’d just been kissedstupid.

“If you don’t mind, sir?”

I shrugged and turned back to Davies. “You want to tell me now why you’re fucking with my agent?”

“You and your cloak and dagger maneuvers, Vincent. This isn’t the Cold War anymore.” Davies’s voice had gone strident, and he was looking furious. “We are aware that Matheson was in Phoenix at the same time Bill Fitzwilliam disappeared. As you should know, Fitzwilliam was an irreplaceable contact for the WBIS.”

“No one is irreplaceable. Surely you’ve worked here long enough to have learned that simple fact? And what gave you the impression that Matheson was in Arizona whenever it was you think Fitzwilliam went missing?”