Nightfall Over Shanghai by Daniel Kalla

Author:Daniel Kalla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2015-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

“Medical students, certainly, but I can think of few trained doctors who faint at the sight of blood,” Suzuki said.

The image of the crazed major beating the patient over the head with the handle of his cane came back to Franz. “The circumstances were not entirely usual,” he said.

“What is usual anymore?” Suzuki asked rhetorically.

Franz felt a pinch and then saw a thread of catgut slither across his nose. “How many stitches?” he asked.

“Nine so far,” Suzuki said. “You will require several more. The laceration is deep. I must close it in layers.”

Franz saw double, two sets of side-by-side scissors’ teeth as Helen cut the suture right above his nose. Suzuki leaned away from the light, and Franz had to close his eyes against the painful glare. “Is the boy …?”

Suzuki shook his head once. “The private should never have turned back during the charge.”

“He went back to pick up his eyeglasses,” Franz said.

“Glasses are of little use when one is charging a tommy gun.”

Arguing further was as senseless as the fighting itself, but Franz wanted to keep Suzuki distracted, so he said, “The major, his limp?”

“What about it?” Suzuki asked.

“A battle wound?”

“Hmm,” Suzuki said as he ran another stitch. “I am told it happened in the Philippines. His pelvis was shattered and the sciatic nerve destroyed.”

“So now he is forced to command a field hospital? Behind the front lines?”

“Major Okada is a decorated war hero. He has been deployed all over the Pacific. This assignment …”

“Is humiliating for him?” Helen suggested.

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