The Society by Michael Palmer
Author:Michael Palmer [Palmer, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780553583625
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2004-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Alone in his office, Augie Micelli sipped on a brandy, stared across the room at a spider plying its trade in the corner, and scratched boxes around words on a yellow legal pad—his way since college of working through problems. From the portable CD player on the floor by his desk, Gene Ammons’s soulful tenor sax was playing “Willow Weep for Me.” A drug addict, Ammons was known as Jug, perhaps for the way he drank, Micelli thought fondly, or maybe for the stretches he did in the jug before, at forty-nine, he died.
Although Micelli had been there at his desk for several hours with a drink close at hand, he was still far more sober than not. There was significant work to do, so he had been treading the delicate line between maintaining a clear head and keeping the shakes in check. It was a case that, when all was said and done, might not even pay the electric bill. But if Will Grant was telling the truth, if he had been framed and was now being purged from medicine much as Micelli, himself, had been, taking the case had been the right thing to do. Now the trick was seeing to it that Grant never made it anywhere near a courtroom, and that meant figuring out how he could have been railroaded so smoothly.
Spread out across the desk and on the floor around him were articles, xeroxed book pages, and printouts from the Internet, all dealing with the narcotic fentanyl. Usual dose; onset of action; route of administration; duration of action; pharmacologic effects; side effects; symptoms of overdose; chemical formula; metabolites. Gene Ammons had moved on to “I Remember You,” Micelli’s favorite on the album, which was to say the one that made him feel most blue.
“Not good,” he muttered as he considered the case, “not good at all.”
The only explanation that fit all the facts was that Will Grant was both an addict and a liar. Micelli bounced the eraser of his pencil on an article dealing with the pharmacokinetics of sufentanil, ten times more powerful than fentanyl, eight hundred times more powerful than morphine, and of carfentanil, which was nearly fifteen times more powerful even than that. He found himself thinking about a statement from one of his law-school professors, and wrote it in block letters at the bottom of the yellow sheet.
IF YOUR BELIEFS DON’T FIT WITH THE FACTS, THEN JUST POUND THE HELL OUT OF THE FACTS UNTIL THEY DO.
He snatched up the phone and dialed. Will Grant answered on the first ring.
“Okay, Doctor,” Micelli said, making a series of boxes around the words, “take me through that day again.”
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