A Cold Blooded Business by Dana Stabenow

Author:Dana Stabenow [Dana Stabenow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788549011
Publisher: Head of Zeus

Seven

FRIDAY MORNING KATE BEGAN the Augean task of wading through the RPetCo files. The medical logs overflowed with the jargon so dear to the hearts of all medical practitioners, a translating job that was not aided by the cuneiform calligraphics equally dear, but a morning’s worth of sifting, a lot of coffee and the stubborn conviction that she could in fact read English brought to light several interesting observations.

One was that there had been two previous rashes of drug-related incidents on the west side of the Prudhoe Bay field, each occurring within a twenty-four-hour period. There were other drug-related cases spread out throughout the year, but these two were the most concentrated and bore a striking similarity to the experiences of Wednesday night of the previous week. Kate read the list of injuries suffered by the A Shift physician’s assistant on the first occasion with a sympathy tempered by relief she hadn’t been the one on the receiving end of the pool cue.

With a tablet and a pencil she made a list of dates and names. Cross-checking the names against the employee roster she’d filched from the Slope the previous week, she placed each employee on the list in his department or, in the case of contractors, with his employer, and on his assigned shift. Finishing, she stacked the medical logs and reached for the pile of manifests.

There were a lot of them, one per flight for the last year. There were nine flights in an ordinary week, one on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, two on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The manifests were fairly straightforward: lists of passengers in alphabetical order, varying from 63 to 102, depending on whether the 727 had been reconfigured to carry freight and passengers or passengers only. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays it usually carried two igloos of freight on all four flights. An example of an exception was the day the plane had been delayed due to weather, Kate’s first flight north. Wednesday morning the Transportation Department had been faced with changing out three shifts of employees at once instead of just one, and the plane had been reconfigured to fly all seats to accomplish this feat with the greatest dispatch. She rifled through the stack until she spotted another canceled manifest and paged forward to the next flight. As she had expected, reconfiguring the plane to all passengers appeared to be standard procedure the day after a canceled flight, unless there was a medical evacuation, in which case the medevac igloo usurped the extra seats.

By eleven her eyes were beginning to cross and she rose from the kitchen table and stretched. Mutt was on her feet immediately, eyes pleading. They took the left fork of the bike trail this time, and the left tunnel, toward Point Woronzof. Wednesday’s snow had melted and the trail was down to the pavement in most places, but the sky was a leaden gray and a brisk wind nipped at Kate’s ears and stung her cheeks, as if to

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