Jurassic Park: A Novel by Michael Crichton
Author:Michael Crichton [Crichton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Adventure
ISBN: 9780307763051
Google: V5s14nks9I8C
Amazon: B007UH4D3G
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012-05-14T05:00:00+00:00
BUNGALOW
“More coffee?” Hammond asked politely.
“No, thank you,” Henry Wu said, leaning back in his chair. “I couldn’t eat anything more.” They were sitting in the dining room of Hammond’s bungalow, in a secluded corner of the park not far from the labs. Wu had to admit that the bungalow Hammond had built for himself was elegant, with sparse, almost Japanese lines. And the dinner had been excellent, considering the dining room wasn’t fully staffed yet.
But there was something about Hammond that Wu found troubling. The old man was different in some way … subtly different. All during dinner, Wu had tried to decide what it was. In part, a tendency to ramble, to repeat himself, to retell old stories. In part, it was an emotional liability, flaring anger one moment, maudlin sentimentality the next. But all that could be understood as a natural concomitant of age. John Hammond was, after all, almost seventy-seven.
But there was something else. A stubborn evasiveness. An insistence on having his way. And, in the end, a complete refusal to deal with the situation that now faced the park.
Wu had been stunned by the evidence (he did not yet allow himself to believe the case was proved) that the dinosaurs were breeding. After Grant had asked about amphibian DNA, Wu had intended to go directly to his laboratory and check the computer records of the various DNA assemblies. Because, if the dinosaurs were in fact breeding, then everything about Jurassic Park was called into question—their genetic development methods, their genetic control methods, everything. Even the lysine dependency might be suspect. And if these animals could truly breed, and could also survive in the wild …
Henry Wu wanted to check the data at once. But Hammond had stubbornly insisted Wu accompany him at dinner.
“Now then, Henry, you must save room for ice cream,” Hammond said, pushing back from the table. “María makes the most wonderful ginger ice cream.”
“All right” Wu looked at the beautiful, silent serving girl. His eyes followed her out of the room, and then he glanced up at the single video monitor mounted in the wall. The monitor was dark. “Your monitor’s out,” Wu said.
“Is it?” Hammond glanced over. “Must be the storm.” He reached behind him for the telephone. “I’ll just check with John in control.”
Wu could hear the static crackle on the telephone line. Hammond shrugged, and set the receiver back in its cradle. “Lines must be down,” he said. “Or maybe Nedry’s still doing data transmission. He has quite a few bugs to fix this weekend. Nedry’s a genius in his way, but we had to press him quite hard, toward the end, to make sure he got things right.”
“Perhaps I should go to the control room and check,” Wu said.
“No, no,” Hammond said. “There’s no reason. If there were any problem, we’d hear about it. Ah.”
María came back into the room, with two plates of ice cream.
“You must have just a little, Henry,” Hammond said. “It’s made with fresh ginger, from the eastern part of the island.
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