Chapters 17-20 Summary

This section of four chapters begins with Davenport and others proceeding to Arne Palin's home for an arrest, but Palin's complicity does not "feel" right to either Lucas or Police Chief Roux. In fact, once Palin is brought in, a taped phone call for the purported crooked cop is demonstrated not to be Palin's voice. He is immediately cleared. Unhappy about this turn of events, Stadic continues to plan the elimination of LaChaise and Martin, setting them up this time by sending them to the home of another cop, Franklin, who is on his way home. Stadic's plan is to ambush them at Franklin's home. He has finally remembered that his cell phone number is in LaChaise's cell phone memory, and he must destroy it. This plan is interrupted when Davenport insists that Stadic accompany him in the investigation of the...