The break in the case came at eleven-thirty on a Tuesday night.
These things rarely arrived at convenient hours. The evidence that unraveled structures did not wait for working days or reasonable times of the morning — it arrived when the analysis had been running long enough to reach the intersection of the right records and the right attention, which in this case happened to be late in an evening when we had both been in the new annex for seven hours and the coffee had been replaced by the kind of quiet determination that operated on its own fuel once the fatigue exceeded useful consciousness.
