Day of Absolution
Chapter One
So it came about on a bitter and freezing Wednesday in February at the
beginning of the new-millennium that Charles Vincent Gauntlet married Rebecca
Louise Olesker, at a civil ceremony with people pulled in off the street as
witnesses. They had lived together, in Bex's flat in Dolphin Square, for some
months and, in spite of the perceptible age difference, were as happy as they
had any right to be, if not happier.
Bex was particularly suited, for her work was - well, let's just say that any
partner had to really understand the Job. She had given up looking for a
husband when she first met Gauntlet. It had always been such a letdown. Men
never understood, or they wanted to know more, or they just got jealous of the
Metropolitan Police Force. Being a detective chief inspector in the Met was bad
enough, but to be in the Anti-Terrorist OS13 Branch was something else.
They had met at the funeral of a colleague.
"You knew old Herbie for long?" Charlie asked her. It was almost a chat-up
line, and he was quite surprised when Bex said that she had done some quite
wild things with Herbie. "It was ... read full excerpt from Day of Absolution: A Novel ebook
