Ghost In The Machine by Jon F. Merz

Author:Jon F. Merz [Merz, Jon F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-10T22:00:00+00:00

We weren’t due to meet up with Kemp until that evening so I drove us back to the safe house in Lanzendorf as the sun broke across the horizon. I pulled the car into the garage and let the door slide back down before getting out and helping Elena from the car. Inside, the Ferret assigned to the house was out, so I carried Elena upstairs to one of the bedrooms and put her down on the bed.

She glanced down at her ankle. “I think it’s sprained.”

I examined it, probing gently and looking for confirmation of the injury. The skin was slightly discolored and a bit swollen. Touching the area around her ankle made her flinch. “You’re right. I’ll get you bandaged up. Kemp is meeting us tonight and I’m sure he’ll have more traveling for you to do before you’re safe.”

Elena gave me a sort of sick smile. “I’ll live my life on the run from now on. The SVR won’t be forgiving.”

“You’ll have to hide for a while,” I said. “Eventually, they’ll get tired of looking.”

“No,” said Elena. “Not with me.”

“What makes you so different from any other defector?”

She leaned back on the pillows and sighed. “Did my brother tell you what I did for them?”

“Paranormal research.”

She laughed. “That doesn’t even begin to explain it.”

“We’ve got time.”

“Are you familiar with mind-body dualism?”

I sat on the edge of the bed facing her. “Not really.”

“Descartes. Surely you know of him.”

“French philosopher. Never read much about his work.”

Elena propped herself up. “It wouldn’t kill you to pick up a book every once in a while.”

I eyed her. “Yeah, I’ll try to make some time for it when I’m not helping beautiful women escape from their captors.”

Elena sighed. “You’re right. I’m sorry.”

“Forget it. Mine’s a thankless job. Continue.”

“The sort of dualism that Descartes adhered to is called Cartesian dualism and he asserted that the mental could not have any sort of extension into the physical realm. That the mental and material were separate.”

My eyes were getting heavy. But then again, philosophy had always made me sleepy. I kept mine simple: kill the bad guys, save the good guys, and go to bed each night with a stiff drink and a beautiful woman. Easy. “All right, what does that have to do with the paranormal?”

“Everything,” said Elena. “If you adhere to any sort of dualism theory, then you are immediately compromising your belief that the mind can actually affect the physical. That the two are intermingled and that one can most definitely affect the other. Sometimes in incredible ways.” She took a moment. “After the second world war, Soviet troops acquired much of the research that Hitler had been working on. They brought it back to Moscow where it was pored over and they used it to start their own paranormal and psychic research programs. If we could figure out how to harness the power of the mind, then we would potentially be ahead of the west. It could be vital to the power of the Soviet Union.

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