Dead Famous [antikvár]

DAY TWENTY-NINE. 9.15 a.m. 'Television presenter, television presenter, television presenter, television presenter, train driver.' Sergeant Hooper looked up. 'Train driver?' 'I'm sorry, my mistake. Television presenter.' Chief Inspector Coleridge dumped the thick file of suspect profiles onto his desk and turned his attention once more to the big video screen that had been erected in the corner of the incident room. For the previous two hours he had been w^atching tapes at random. Garry lounged on the green couch. The pause button was down and Garry's image was frozen. Had the tape been running, the picture would have been much the same, for Garry was in his customary position, legs spread wide, muscles flexed, left hand idly fondling his testicles. A blurred blue eagle hovered above his right ankle. Coleridge hated that eagle. Just what the hell did this pointless lump of arrogance and ignorance think he had in common with an eagle? He pressed play and Garry spoke. 'Your basic English Premier League team consists of ten idiots and one big gorilla hanging about up at the front, usually a black geezer.' Coleridge struggled to care. Already his mind was drifting. How much rubbish could these people talk? Everybody talked