The suspect lived in a white stucco building on the western edge of town. Small and dark, his apartment contained no pictures, no food, few personal effects.Just slim plastic boxes, dozens of them, piled high in cupboards and on shelves and in the refrigerator.
And a smell. Faint and rancid, it permeated everything, clinging to the walls and the bathroom and the bed, clinging even to the suspect himself.
To undercover agent Ed Newcomer the smell was unmistakable.
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