Index Of Line Of Duty -

“Mother of God. Don’t move, Kate. I’m coming out of retirement.”

She had one advantage: Carl had hidden the passphrase to Server 4 in plain sight. The “H” stood for Hastings—her old guv’nor, retired. The redacted word? Ted . Ted Hastings. Because Carl knew the only clean copper left was the one they’d forced out.

“H,” Marcus whispered. “Oh, God. He found the H.” Index Of Line Of Duty

Kate stopped breathing. Hargreaves was her new boss’s boss.

Kate’s phone buzzed. A text from an unknown number: “Mother of God

Her stomach turned. Carl hadn’t been investigating criminals. He’d been investigating the investigators.

The index was open. Now the line of duty would cut both ways. The “H” stood for Hastings—her old guv’nor, retired

The victim was DS Carl Hudson—a serving anti-corruption officer. His body had been found in a lock-up garage in Birmingham, hands cuffed behind his back, a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. No forced entry. No witnesses. The local force called it a “botched robbery.” Kate, newly transferred to AC-12’s regional unit, knew better.