How Mustang Fought a Government That Controlled the Evidence

How Mustang Fought a Government That Controlled the Evidence Mustang saves Maria Ross by making everyone think he burned her alive. He leaves a body, lets a doctor identify it, and allows Edward to believe he murdered an innocent woman. Meanwhile, the real Ross is being smuggled out of the country. The cover story works because it gives almost everybody what they expect. The military gets a dead suspect. Hughes’s grieving friend gets his revenge. Nobody needs to keep looking. Except Mustang. He still doesn’t know who killed Hughes. But he’s already worked out that leaving Ross in custody means trusting the people who framed her to admit their mistake. So he gives them a corpse instead. And that rescue starts a much harder problem: how do you investigate your own government without handing it everyone who can help you?