Kazak Guardians: Book III: Megan (Kazak Guardians Series 3) by C. R. Daems

Author:C. R. Daems
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Talon Novels
Published: 2017-04-09T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Senator Burns

"How are you feeling?" Mr. Witton asked Jody and me after we had sat. Ann Marie had arranged for an early morning meeting.

"I'm good. I've been working out and feel ready for an assignment," I said, thinking that was what he wanted to know.

"I'm also ready for an assignment," Jody said. "So long as I'm not paired with Megan. She attracts automatic weapons like damp wood attracts termites."

"She does, doesn't she?" Witton nodded agreement. "As you are aware, we always have more potential clients than available Kazaks, and the avenging triad killing two and put you two out of commission hasn't helped. And the Committee has a priority client who they claim can't wait. So I need one of you." He scanned us, willing to let us to decide.

I looked to Jody, who was frowning at me.

"I'd like an assignment, but I'm not as antsy as Megan. She's been acting like a racehorse in the starting gate," Jody said, grinning in my direction.

"What about you, Megan?"

"I think Jody is a living saint." I bowed in her direction.

"Who you owe big time," Witton said.

I nodded agreement.

"Thank you, Jody," Witton said. "I believe Megan is the right choice for this assignment. The client is Senator Robert Burns. Because his daughter has a congenital heart disease, he used his position on several health-related subcommittees to get the FDA to issue a Humanitarian Device Exemption for a new pulmonary heart valve. Since then, doctors have inserted fifty such devices. Unfortunately there have been five deaths. An extensive investigation by the FDA has concluded the deaths were not related to the new device. That hasn't stopped several lawsuits which claim they have experts who disagree. The real problem is that two of the children who died are related in some way to persons connected with organized crime, which may or may not be connected with Senator Burns getting emails and letters threatening to kill his ten-year-old daughter."

"An eye for an eye," Jody said quietly as if remembering something in her past. "That was the prevailing philosophy where I grew up."

"Call Cohn and Cohn." I snorted in amusement. "A renowned law firm on the speed dial of everyone in my neighborhood. They were the solution to most perceived problems. The pain and loss are the same in both instances, but not the source for justice."

"Good point, Megan. Lawsuits have been filed, except they aren't against the senator or FDA, but the manufacturer of the device. But because some of the children's relatives are connected to organized crime, we have to assume the eye-for-an-eye scenario may be imminent, in which case professionals would be involved."

"What about the senator and his wife and any other children?" I asked.

"The senator has two grown children from a previous marriage, but they live in other states and aren't considered at risk, nor is the senator or his wife. The emails were very specific, targeting his daughter as the reason for approving the device—a daughter for a daughter."

"That sounds exciting. I assume the girl is going to school, to medical appointments, and is in general active.

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