Deception by Ken McClure

Author:Ken McClure [McClure, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Medical, Suspense, Thrillers
Amazon: B004PGNPCU
Publisher: Saltoun
Published: 2013-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Steven’s first thought was to go after Levi and demand to know why he had put a different cause of death on the PM report to the one he had already given orally to Brewer and himself at the city mortuary, but when he’d calmed down he decided against it. Doing that wasn’t going to solve anything and would just advertise his own involvement in the Blackbridge affair even more. He could certainly gain satisfaction from rattling Levi’s cage until the man admitted that he’d been leaned on but there really wasn’t any doubt about that. The real question was who had done the leaning? And he felt certain that Levi would not know the answer to that, just that the order had come down from on high.

Steven bit the bullet and accepted that he wasn’t going to get any closer to Sigma 5 by pursuing that course of action so there was no point in even considering it. Instead he simply tried to analyse the motives behind such a cover-up.

Clearly, Sigma 5 did not want the press to know about the rats’ involvement in McNish’s death - presumably because it did not want anyone making the connection between the GM experiment and the change in the rats’ behaviour – always assuming that there was a connection. The little niggling doubt came back again, the one that said that there was nothing at all wrong with the Agrigene crop: it was perfectly ordinary oilseed rape.

The actions of the opposition in all this however, were forcing him to consider that maybe there was something about the crop that he didn’t know, something that made the Agrigene oilseed rape different from all the other GM variants. Thinking along these lines made him conclude that he should have another talk with their technical manager, Phillip Grimble.

Steven was near enough to Peat Ridge Farm to act upon that thought immediately. He turned into the track leading up to the farm and as expected, was flagged down by security guards. He went through the ritual of showing his ID but this time he asked the one who was doing the phoning to find out if the Agrigene man as still there. He was.

‘Well, Doctor, I trust you have come to tell me that the authorities have finally admitted their blunder. They’ve agreed to pay us large amounts of compensation and we can stop paying all these guards out there forthwith?’ said Ronald Lane by way of greeting.

‘Not quite,’ said Steven. ‘That won’t be my decision I’m afraid. I’m just here to see fair play along the way. Actually I’d like a few words with Mr Grimble, if that’s possible?’

‘Words, words, words,’ sneered Lane. ‘We’re never short of words round here. It’s translating them into some kind of bloody action that seems to be the problem. You’ll find him in the office along there, planning our latest defence strategy,’ said Lane with a wry smile. He pointed to a door along the hallway. ‘If you don’t need me, Doctor, I have plenty to be getting on with.

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