Yevrogen faced the accusations from the others without being able to say a word, because he truly could not find any excuse.
It was not that he had failed to take this matter seriously. Last night, he had mobilized nearly all the police forces in Moscow to search for the gunmen.
But apart from finding the very ordinary Lada the gunmen had driven not far from the crime scene, they had uncovered nothing else.
According to Gryzlov, his assistant, and his driver, there should have been at least three people in that car when the shooting occurred. Besides the two shooters, there should also have been a driver.
Naturally, those three were the people Yevrogen had ordered his men to search for.
As for the car abandoned by the gunmen, the police had of course investigated its origins as quickly as possible, hoping to trace the gunmen through that clue.
Unfortunately, to their disappointment, it was just an extremely common Lada, the kind seen all over the streets. Its owner had no idea what had happened. When the police burst into his home to arrest him, he had been sound asleep.
The emergency interrogation revealed that the car did indeed belong to him. He had still been driving it when he got off work that afternoon, but he had parked it by the roadside that evening and had no idea what happened afterward...
There was no need to ask. Those gunmen had simply "found" a car by the roadside. That lead was as good as dead.
Perhaps while the police were conducting a citywide search, the gunmen had already switched vehicles and left Moscow...
Moscow had a population of over ten million, with an enormous number of transient residents. Finding three people in a single night when they did not