True Evil by Greg Iles

Author:Greg Iles [Iles, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 1416545336
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Inc.
Published: 2007-09-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chris was in an examining room checking a prostate gland when Jane called him out to take Dr. Connolly's call. He ripped off the glove, hurried to his office, and picked up the phone.

"Pete? It's Chris Shepard."

"Hey, boy! What's it been, seven years?"

"More."

"The last I heard, you were playing Albert Schweitzer in the Mississippi Delta."

"Just a phase."

"I know better."

"How's your wife, Pete?"

"Anna's good. And my daughter's starting at UVA med next fall."

"God, is she that old?"

"No, I'm that old. Now, what's all this about giving people cancer on purpose? That was a pretty strange message you left me. Have you switched from making documentaries to horror movies? Or did somebody get murdered down there?"

"To tell you the truth, Pete…I can't talk about it."

There was a long pause. Then Connolly said, "Okay, well, I did some thinking about it during what passed for my lunch. You ready?"

"Shoot."

"As for chemical agents, multiple myeloma can be caused by a spectrum of carcinogens. Herbicides are particularly damaging. But you're talking about a twenty-year incubation period before the cancer hits. Toxins could work much faster, but virtually all are detectable using gas chromatography and a mass spectrometer. The CSI guys would bust you in a hurry."

"On TV they would. I'm finding out that the real world is different."

"What the heck are you into, Chris? No one's going to be mixing this stuff up in his kitchen sink. Not even in an average university lab."

"I hope you're right," Chris replied, ignoring the question.

"Radiation is another obvious choice," Connolly went on. "There's no doubt you could induce leukemia with it."

"But could you do it undetectably?"

"Not easily. But it might be possible."

Chris felt a strange thrumming in his chest.

"X-rays would probably cause all sorts of side effects, both local and systemic, so forget that. Radiotherapy pellets would probably cause burns, skin tumors, maybe nausea early on. Although there are some alpha emitters whose effects aren't dose-related at all. Even the smallest exposure is oncogenic."

"Really?" Chris grabbed a pen and scrawled this on a notepad.

"It would take a real specialist to know that kind of thing, of course. The most interesting radiation option isn't pellets, though."

"What is it?"

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