We had embraced briefly back at her lab, then got in the car and hightailed it over here as fast as we could. Annalisa sat for a moment, Julie Patchouli’s ID card in one hand, her patchouli on the other. She tucked the ID into her shirt pocket and slipped out of the car without a word. As soon as...
It was less than twenty minutes by car. The campus consisted of a cluster of modern buildings with an enclosed pavilion at the entrance and a large courtyard. It even had ample parking. We were a quarter mile away from it when I noticed the police, a cluster of cars and a crowd of officers in tac...