A Case of Need by Hudson Jeffery & Crichton Michael

Author:Hudson, Jeffery & Crichton, Michael [Hudson, Jeffery & Crichton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Crime, Medical
ISBN: 9780451183668
Amazon: B0037SYGFM
Goodreads: 232184
Publisher: Signet Books
Published: 1968-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Instead I ran into Blake. Blake is a senior pathologist at the General, but he is principally known for his head, which is enormous, round, and smooth. The features of his face are small and childlike, a tiny jaw and wide-set eyes, so that Blake looks like everybody’s vision of future man. He is coldly, sometimes maddeningly intellectual man, and he is fond of games. He and I have played one game, off and on, for years.

He greeted me with a wave of his martini glass and, “Ready?”

“Sure.”

“Moans to Rocky,” he said.

It sounded easy. I took out my notebook and pencil and tried it out. At the top of the page I wrote MOANS and at the bottom, ROCKY. Then I tried to fit things together.

MOANS

LOANS

LOINS

LOONS

BOONS

BOOKS

ROOKS

ROCKS

ROCKY

It took only a few moments. “How many?” Blake said. “Nine.”

He smiled. “I’m told it can be done in five. I have seven.” He took the pad from me and wrote:

MOANS

LOANS

LOONS

LOOKS

ROOKS

ROCKS

ROCKY

I reached into my pocket and gave him a quarter. He had won the last three in a row, and over the years, he had beaten me consistently. But then Blake beat everybody.

“By the way,” he said, “I heard another argument. Do you know the DNA template one?”7

“Yes,” I said.

He shook his head. “Pity. I enjoy it. Springing it on people, I mean.”

I smiled at him, barely able to conceal my pleasure.

“You know the latest on Youth in Asia? The one about the right to refuse medication? You can fit it into the fluoride arguments, very neatly.”8

I’d heard that one, too, and I told him so. This seemed to depress him. He wandered off to try his luck with someone else.

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