Rise of the Order: A Jake Adams International Espionage Thriller by Trevor Scott

Author:Trevor Scott [Scott, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calabria Publishing
Published: 2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

14

It was early morning in Magdeburg, Germany. Not that Dr. Wilhelm Altenstein could tell, though, deep inside his university laboratory in the cellar of the science building. He had worked all night with one graduate assistant, Heinz Poetzsch, a brilliant young man from Bernburg, who had actually led Altenstein in the right direction around midnight. Heinz had posed a question—the first step in any important discovery.

Altenstein rubbed his tired eyes. If he stopped thinking for a moment, which was entirely impossible, he would have felt the hunger and the sleep deprivation that made his hands shake as he picked up a cup of coffee. But the coffee and the recent discovery were the only things keeping him going.

“Herr Professor?” Heinz said, his hands deep into the pockets of his white lab coat. His dark brown hair stuck up in all directions, and his tiny round spectacles sat crooked on his thin nose.

“Ja, Heinz.” Altenstein sipped his coffee. He was afraid to look at himself in the mirror each time he went to the bathroom to get rid of coffee. Afraid to see what the night, the weeks before, had done to his body.

“We should go for breakfast,” the assistant said.

The grad student was right again. There was nothing more for them to do at this time. They had run computer schemes following the discovery; processed them through the link they had to the supercomputer in Berlin where the entire human genome was stored. They had also done the tests over and over again. The results were always the same. The nano probes attacked the gene for hair color every time. If they could do that. . .he shook his head and wanted to destroy his work.

“You go, Heinz,” Altenstein said. “I must think.”

“Sir, this will mean the Nobel Prize for you.”

“I don’t think so.”

“It’s true, Herr Doctor. With this discovery we will easily be able to find cures for some of the most invasive diseases on Earth.” He straightened his eyeglasses, but his dark brows rose with his wrinkled forehead.

“Please. Go get something to eat, Heinz.” Altenstein waved his hands at his assistant until the young man left the lab.

His young assistant was too naive. As with all great discoveries, there were both rewards and concerns. In this case, Altenstein’s concerns far outweighed any thought of rewards. What would his benefactor Hermann Conrad do with this discovery? Altenstein was kicking himself for the late-night call he had made. What? He looked at his watch. Six hours ago? Conrad had first been disturbed with his interruption, but once Altenstein had told him about his discovery, the man had been ecstatic—like a schoolboy after having sex with his first girl.

And now Altenstein was required to go to Austria to present his findings to a group of Conrad’s associates. He was used to that. Had always had to nearly beg for his next funding source. But this was strange, he had to admit. Why Austria? Oh well. The man had money and that’s what Altenstein needed to continue his work.

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