The Dead Man: Face of Evil by Goldberg Lee & Rabkin William

Author:Goldberg, Lee & Rabkin, William [Rabkin, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2011-10-24T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Matt was fortunate that he was taken to a university hospital, not so much for their medical expertise and wide resources, but for their selfishness and greed.

The university was known in the scientific community for offering lucrative salaries to researchers in return for retaining the patents on anything that anybody created or discovered, accidentally or intentionally, while on their payroll.

The university was also known among pharmaceutical companies, military contractors, equipment manufacturers, and third world dictatorships as a shameless whore that would sell those patents to whoever offered the best prices, the biggest endowments, the most endowed escorts, the highest bribes, and the most decadent perks.

So it was in the university's financial interest, over the three short days that followed Matt's admittance to the ER, to downplay reports of his miraculous rebirth and to keep him, and whatever lucrative secrets his body might hold, all to themselves.

The hospital's public affairs director did an excellent job deflecting press inquiries by not exactly denying the facts, but by pointing out how ridiculous and unbelievable they were, implying that it was all either an elaborate hoax or a big mistake.

The university was helped in their efforts by Matt's refusal to grant any interviews, take any calls, see any visitors, or allow any information about his condition to be shared with the media.

But most of all, the university benefitted from the media's short attention span, their insatiable hunger for news, and the timely discovery of video of a teenage Disney starlet enthusiastically engaged in a naked three-way with a couple of shockingly tumescent Nick at Nite boy toys.

Life after death couldn't compete with celebrity jailbait sex, so Matthew Cahill was forgotten even faster than he'd been discovered.

But not by the doctors or the scientific community.

They all wanted to take a sample of something, anything, from Matthew Cahill.

Unfortunately for them, they would have to make do with what they got from him in the first few hours after his arrival in the hospital. Because after that, as he rapidly regained his strength and became fully aware of his situation, he refused to allow any further blood tests, or X-rays, or CT scans, and rejected virtually all medical treatment beyond IV fluids the first day or so, and stitches to the cut the coroner made.

Dr. Travis and all the other doctors on the team, now numbering well over a dozen, strenuously objected to Matt's decision, warning him of all sorts of dire outcomes. But having survived the most dire of all outcomes, Matt was not swayed.

So on the morning of the fourth day, the doctors went off to conspire with hospital administrators and left him alone in his room to ponder his strange fate.

The last thing he remembered was looking over his shoulder and seeing that wave of snow closing in on him. And then he woke up in the ER.

He didn't much care how, or why, he'd managed to survive. He certainly didn't consider it a miracle. If anything, it was a cruel joke that

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