The Second Opinion by Michael Palmer

Author:Michael Palmer [Palmer, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Medical, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780312343552
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

The day was gray, but balmy, with a warm breeze raising tiny sand devils on the beach. Dan pulled the rented Avalon to a stop before a small, gray-stained clapboard cottage on a narrow seaside street, then stepped out into the late afternoon sun and cleared his head with some deep breaths of salt air. There was a dark blue Nissan Sentra in the drive.

His friend, June Tilly, had come through big time at the crime lab—not only a match for the single print taken from the glasses, but a twelve- year- old military photo as well, and a name: Gerald Prevoir. There was no way to be absolutely certain that the man in the grainy snapshot was the orderly who had assaulted him outside the ICU, but Dan believed it enough to take a personal day off from work in order to fly from Boston to Philadelphia, and drive down the coast to South Carlisle, Delaware, the last known address of the man, who had received a Marine Bronze Star with valor device for action in Afghanistan.

There was no hall of records in South Carlisle, but 57 Salt Spray Lane was listed in the registry of deeds in Dover, and had been owned by a business called Hessian Homes of Miami for nearly ten years. No surprise. Dan had gotten several breaks already. It was unlikely that finding the man who attacked him would be smooth sailing all the way.

If the trip to Delaware brought him no closer, he would consider the risk of having Thea file an official report claiming assault and battery, and use his friends on the force to expand the search for Gerald Prevoir. He also had a bit of savings he was willing to use for a private detective. If needed, he knew he could ask Thea for help.

A day had passed since his evening with her. She had been an exciting, passionate, and joyous lover, open and enthusiastic, lithe and as sexy as she was unself- conscious. There would be no fake orgasms from this woman. No fake anything, for that matter.

They would have spent the night together, but Dimitri was waiting up for them. In addition, the attack on Thea, and the threats, most definitely upped the ante of their situation. She was in danger, as was her father.

In his own way, Dimitri Sperelakis was as unique as his sister. He was mercurial in his personality and in his attention span, camped in front of his bank of computer screens, moving from video games to complex, well- supported theories of attempted murder, to YouTube clips of his favorite illusionists, the Pendragons, performing their remarkable Metamorphosis. It was almost as if he needed the constant motion to stay focused. Even his voice seemed modulated. One moment he sounded like a child, the next like a nuclear physicist.

After reviewing his animation and theories regarding Petros’s hit-and-run, Dimitri had scrambled into the backseat of Petros’s Volvo as Thea drove them to the scene of the accident.

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