Guardian by London Alex

Author:London, Alex [London, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Property of Dr. Adaeze Khan,

Medical High Command.

For her eyes ONLY.

Dr. Khan.

That was the name Cousin had said.

The doctor who was murdered.

Why would Liam have this book?

He pictured Liam’s face when Cousin mentioned the murder, tried to remember word for word what he said.

“Dr. Khan, very tragically, was murdered last week,” Cousin said.

“You—” Liam replied and then, “She—?”

How did Liam know Dr. Khan was a she? He couldn’t read; he’d just admitted that, so he hadn’t read the inside cover. How else would he know?

For the same reason he had the book to begin with, the same reason he and that man called Cousin had shared such a knowing look with each other.

Liam wasn’t just Syd’s protector.

He was a killer.

Of course he was a killer. That wasn’t news. He’d been a soldier since he was a boy. Syd knew that much about him. He’d seen him kill, even.

But why would Liam kill a doctor? Why kill the one woman who could’ve helped them?

Syd flipped the pages frantically, scanned the words without really absorbing them.

Resilience factors in Nonoperatives unpredictable yet evidence suggests their presence in a percentage of the control group. Negative correlation with affected treatments. Fatality rates inoptimal.

Scientific jargon. Syd couldn’t make much sense of it. He flipped the pages and he saw sketched strands of DNA, a face webbed with veins.

Before her death, she had taken extensive notes about the infection.

He stopped at one sentence, underlined: No organic cure viable.

No cure.

He kept turning pages. Midway through the book, just before the writing stopped, he found another passage he understood. The understanding quickened his heartbeat.

I begin to understand the fatality of the condition. Will present my findings to Chairwoman P. next week. I fear she will not be receptive. My recommendation: network reactivation. Feasibility of machine: TBD.

Others have been disappeared for less, but biodata linkage appears to be the only way to prevent population morbidity.

Population morbidity? Syd untangled the words. It was a lux way of saying what Eeron Brindle had said: Without the networks back on, everyone would die.

Feasibility of machine: TBD.

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