Continental Attack: Murder and Mayhem in Detroit's Auto Industry by Cunningham Mike

Author:Cunningham, Mike [Cunningham, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Mike Cunningham
Published: 2015-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The Sunshine Home for Seniors, a retirement complex on the edge of St. Petersburg, in Florida, had its' own medical area, part of the package which encouraged retiring couples to invest their savings and pensions in, as the brochure claimed, 'the best-equipped, safest and friendliest home in the Retirement capital of America'. The planners had indeed spared no expense, as there was a resident medical teamon call, as well as daytime nursing care and regular medical check-ups for all of the people who could afford the fees which helped the complex run, and paid the dividends of the investors. A middle-aged blonde nurse, on her scheduled evening check in the clinic section, paused and briefly checked if there was anyone awake around her, then opened up her purse and lifted out an glass ampoule, labelled>SleepEze=, a well-known proprietary sedative compound. After loading a syringe with the contents of the ampoule, she approached the bedside of the only occupant of the clinic that night, ensuring that she did not disturb the sleeping occupant, and gently inserted the syringe needle into a feed point directly below the nearly empty drip sac, which was held above the arm of the sleeping patient. A slow pressure deposited all the contents into the drip line, and from there, by simple gravity feed, into the arterial system of James Leary, a man who had only joined the Sunshine Home a matter of weeks ago. His pension was paid, into his checking account, every month on the dot from Grand Rapids, but of course would cease on his death. He would be missed, mainly because he was a real nice guy. The nurse, who had previously ensured that Leary would be in the clinic by slipping a selected stimulant into his afternoon coffee, and therefore giving him the classic early symptoms of a heart attack, placed the empty ampoule and the syringe back into her shoulder purse, patted the man gently on the shoulder, and faded back towards the medical rest room.

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Quintana Cruce was a fourth year student at the Detroit Memorial medical school, where she was hoping to specialise in cardiovascular problems. She, and two others, were supposed to be checking the chemistry of a blood specimen, taken from a corpse, so that they would learn how to check for abnormalities in the systems of future patients, on the basis of check a normal specimen first, then determine which contaminant had been introduced by their fiendishly clever instructor. The only trouble was that Quintana was doing the work alone, as the other two had decided that a session of horizontal callisthenics was more inviting than working in a boring laboratory. She therefore had no-one to consult with when the read -out stated the presence of two chemicals which should not be present in an ordinary human body. One seemed to be a form of co-agulant, which would mask the presence of the second from the blood in which it was carried. The second chemical

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