Binary by Michael Crichton as John Lange

Author:Michael Crichton as John Lange
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mystery, Fiction, Adventure, Technological, Thrillers, Thriller
ISBN: 9781453299289
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 1972-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

San Diego: 12 noon PDT

Hour 5

“YOU’RE VERY QUIET,” Lewis said, as they drove to the police headquarters.

Graves nodded. “I was thinking of an old story. It’s back in the soft-data section of Wright’s file. You know about the Murdock killing?”

Lewis shook his head.

“It happened in New York five years ago. Wright was married to a girl named Sarah Layne, and when it broke up, she started seeing a man named Murdock. A Texas oilman. Big spender, big ladies’ man.”

Lewis nodded.

“Well, Murdock got an anonymous tip that he would be killed. Got it about seven in the morning. He believed it, so he called his chauffeur and had him go over the car carefully. The chauffeur found a bomb, and notified Murdock. Murdock went down to the garage to see the bomb and had his chauffeur remove it. The chauffeur carried it away. And Murdock, who was an oilman and interested in explosives, leaned into the engine compartment to examine how the bomb had been wired in. And thirty seconds after the first bomb was removed, a second one exploded. Murdock was killed instantly.”

“Nice.”

“Wright was questioned but never charged. There was nothing to point to him. That’s the story. But whoever did it knew a lot about Murdock.”

“You think that’s the way Wright operates?”

“I know it is.”

Lewis was silent for a moment. “Why are we going to the police station?”

“To find out how much Wright knows about me,” Graves said.

The spinning drum produced the transmitted image with almost painful slowness. It made a loud, distracting, clanking sound. Nevertheless, when the first sheet came off the drum Graves grabbed it up eagerly and read with intense concentration—ignoring the clanking, the room, the cops all around, Lewis, everything.

The first sheet was printed out in block letters, as Wright’s file had been:

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING: JOHN NORMAN GRAVES (STATE INT: DOM)

REASON FOR TEST: FIVE YEAR SURVEY

AUTHORIZATION FOR TEST: D/STATE 784-334-404

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: QUERY SUITABILITY FOR DOMESTIC WORK

TEST SCORES AND RESULTS:

1. RORSCHACH INK BLOT

A. TEST SCORES: OF CHIEF INTEREST IS THE USE OF COLOR AS RESPONSE DETERMINANT. THIS IS CONFUSING. ON THE ONE HAND, SUBJECT USES COLOR AS A MAJOR FACTOR IN DETERMINING WHAT HE SEES IN THE FORM. THIS SUGGESTS EMOTIONAL VOLATILITY AND IMPULSIVENESS. ON THE OTHER HAND, HE IS RESPECTFUL OF THE FORMS OF THE COLOR, SUGGESTING CAUTION AND PERHAPS OVERCOMPLIANCE.

B. DYNAMIC CONTENT: THERE IS A HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THEMES OF MASCULINE AGGRESSION. WAR, ANIMALS FIGHTING, WEAPONS, AND BLOOD RECUR OFTEN. A SENSE OF COMPETITION AND STRUGGLE IS USUALLY PRESENT. THERE IS A REMARKABLE LACK OF GUILT EXPRESSED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE THEMES. SUBJECT IS APPARENTLY COMFORTABLE IN SITUATIONS OF TENSION AND COMPETITION.

C. PATTERNS OF THOUGHT ORGANIZATION: NO MAJOR INSIGHTS HERE EXCEPT A STRONG SENSE OF EXCITEMENT RELATING TO ALL COMPETITIVE THEMES AND SUBJECTS.

D. TEST BEHAVIOR: SUBJECT CLEARLY REGARDS THIS TESTING SITUATION AS ONE IN WHICH HE MUST PROVE HIMSELF. IN LINE WITH HIS COMPETITIVE IMPULSES, HE DEFINITELY PLAYS OFF THE TESTER IN A RATHER UNUSUAL MANNER. HE DOES NOT TRY TO PLEASE THE TESTER OR WIN HIS APPROVAL.

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