Other Factors? (Survivor Reread)
Just finished a reread of Survivor because it had been too long. Maybe it’s the mom in me, but I have a harder time with the books that depict child death or brutalization, so I usually skip those books when I do my In Death rereads (I have a similar reaction to New York to Dallas for all the fact that I consider it an essential read for this series and one of the best written books in the series), but it had been awhile so I decided to give it another go.
Since Survivor is not part of my usual reread rotation, I had completely forgotten about this scene between Eve and Whitney:
“I’ll put it away. There isn’t an officer in my division or in this department who should trust me if I can’t. Or don’t. I understood that I’d face this when I accepted the promotion to lieutenant. I understand that I’ll be here again, with the faces of men I know on my board.”
“You should be captain,” he said, and she said nothing. “You know there are reasons, mostly political, why you haven’t yet been offered the opportunity to test for a captaincy.”
“I know the reasons, sir, and accept them.”
“You don’t know them all. I could push it, push the chief, call in some markers.”
“I don’t want markers called in on my account.”
He smiled a little. “Markers are made to be called in. But I don’t—not yet—because, frankly, Dallas, I’m not ready to have one of my best street cops riding a desk. And you’re not ready to comfortably ride one.”
“No, sir. I’m not.”
“We’ll both know when you are. Good coffee,” he said and took another swallow. “I’ll see you in the ready room.”
We know what ‘factors’ Eve knows of that prevented the offer of Captaincy early on in the series because Tibble, in a fit of pique, leveled them at her in Purity, which was mainly her marriage to Roarke.
Wondering what the factors she doesn’t know were?
Regardless we know she was officially offered the captaincy in Thankless so whatever those factors were, they were resolved, but anyone got any thoughts on the (political, apparently) factors she doesn’t know (at this point in the series)?