Behind each bed stood an array of equipment and monitors that emitted a cacophony of random rhythmic chirps. Movable partitions separated the patients. These patients had practically no privacy, but that would hardly matter for Victor’s maneuver. Most everyone in the unit looked either unconsciou...
Adawia Abdul sat in the small office off her lab at Replica, perplexed and perturbed. She must talk to Jake about Immunone. Ever since the Advisory Committee last Friday, he had been evading her questions about the drug’s status. She’d attended the meeting, sitting in the first row seat Jake had ...
Amen.” Rory fingered the beads of her mother’s coral rosary, but her mind wandered. A recurrent theme with her right now. Was her illness a type of payback for all the good things that had been her life, until now? She could never remember being unhappy. True, her father left when she’d been a to...
They’d done their job, invaded the suspect property and secured it. Now the case was back in his hands, at least until the director called the SAC again to question his competency. What did the SWAT commander mean, nobody’s there, but they were, not long ago? What had gone wrong? Barging into the...