Part of him was shouting that it bloody well deserved to be sunk. Her connection to Mitchell Corsico alone was enough to put her back in uniform. When one took into account everything else --- ..... --- she was finished in police work. He knew this intellectually. It was emotionally that he couldn't accept that there were consequences involved and that Barbara Havers had to face them. His heart was arguing that she'd had very good reasons for betraying every tenet of their profession and, in time, everyone would accept that.
That was, of course, the lie. Not only would everyone not accept it, ...