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released into my
custody.”
    A man in a suit came down the back stairs and
said, “Their commanding officer does not possess the authority to
authorize such a thing and this embassy is part of the sovereign
nation of The Republic of Tan Guk Van. This man is our prisoner and
subject to our laws. He will be tried and imprisoned.”
    “No. He will not.” McCoy pulled his gun and
pointed it at the man in the suit.
    Half of the soldiers turned their guns on
McCoy.
    Perez pulled her gun and aimed back and forth
between the soldiers.
    Richie wished he had a gun.

CHAPTER 13
     
    Bradley was in the back of his limo, just about
to go for a late lunch when he got the call. He was only a few
blocks away from the embassy, but traffic was heavy. The first
thing he did was call David, then he called Lu.
    By the time he finished his conversation with
Lu, he was there.
    The driver helped Bradley out of the limo and
over a patch of ice in the gutter.
    Bradley entered the embassy to find two NYPD
detectives with pistols drawn, six Tan Guk Van soldiers with
assault rifles ready to fire, and a tall fat white man in the
middle of it all.
    He turned to the man in the suit and said, “Mr.
Shan. Please tell your men to lower their weapons. This has been a
misunderstanding.”
    “I am sorry Mr. Bradley Bedford, but these
people are under arrest and will be tried according to the laws
of—” his phone rang.
    Bradley said, “That is Ko Sin Lu. Pick it
up.”
    Mr. Shan answered his phone and listened for a
minute before hanging up. He said something in his language to the
soldiers and they lowered their weapons.
    The detectives lowered their
weapons.
    Bradley said, “I need to speak with these
people in private.”
    Mr. Shan led four soldiers up the back stairs
and the other two soldiers returned to their posts by the
door.
    Bradley led Richie and the detectives down the
hallway to a room furnished with a meeting table and a dozen
chairs. He closed the door, then motioned for them to
sit.
    No one sat, so Bradley didn’t sit either. “Ko
Sin Lu is out of the country on official business. I can answer any
questions you may have for him.”
    McCoy asked, “And you are?”
    “Mr. Bradley Bedford, attorney.”
    “I see.” Replied McCoy.
    Richie asked, “Why does he need his lawyer to
answer for him?”
    Bradley looked at Richie’s red face and he knew
he’d been drinking. He didn’t even respond to his question. He
turned back to McCoy and said, “What would you like to know,
detective?”
    McCoy said, “I’d like to know the exact
whereabouts of your client during every minute of the cancer
research fundraiser on Saturday night—but that’s impossible—so the
next best thing would be a DNA sample.”
    Bradley replied, “I am sorry, but that is also
impossible.”
    Perez said, “Of course.”
    Bradley felt for that little boy and his
belligerent father, but at the same time, he had a job to do. “Let
me be frank, detectives. Ko Sin Lu has diplomatic immunity and
therefore is not obligated to answer any questions, and furthermore
. . . he is not liable for any laws broken in foreign
countries.”
    “You motherfucker.” Richie moved toward
Bradley.
    McCoy stopped Richie and stood between him and
Bradley.
    Perez said, “We can get a federal
warrant.”
    Bradley replied, “You can try.”
    Richie opened the door and stormed out of the
room.
    McCoy said, “We will be back.”
    The two detectives left the room.
    Bradley sat down and exhaled. He hated having
to defend Lu. At least he was able to stop a bloodbath today. Talk
about bad publicity.

CHAPTER 14
     
    The realization of the situation, and the icy
cold air outside, took away the last of Richie’s beer buzz as he
stood on the sidewalk and glanced at the parking ticket on his car.
“Figures.”
    Perez took the ticket and said, “We’ll take
care of that.”
    McCoy said, “I’m gonna get that federal warrant
for a DNA sample and then we’re gonna get that