Patrick Masters’s Narrative.
Smith didn’t talk much as I drove the Subaru towards the Lazy F and the decision on my fate. He seemed a man comfortable with silences. I believe interrogators use silence to encourage prisoners to speak, to fill the uncomfortable quietness. I didn’t say anything. I am a lawyer, I use this tactic myself, to let a witness talk on, to say too much. It is the rare witness who can force themselves to confine their answers to Yes or No. More fools they.

