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: When the door opened, Poole was looking down at the badge in his left hand, his right hand about to knock again.
When the door opened, Poole didn’t realize it was Anson Bishop doing the opening. He didn’t look up into the other man’s face until a moment after the man spotted his badge.
He had time enough to register his mistake before Bishop’s fist wrapped around the collar of his jacket and pulled him inside the green house with the strength of a man running on pure adrenaline. He had time enough to hear four words slip from Bishop’s lips before he pulled him inside and threw his body against a small table in the hallway, sending him crashing to the floor.
“You’re not Sam Porter.”