Reprisal by F Paul Wilson

Author:F Paul Wilson [Wilson, F Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Vampires, Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
ISBN: 9780765321664
Google: C2Zm1qjd0uQC
Amazon: B009WHML9A
Barnesnoble: B009WHML9A
Goodreads: 881466
Publisher: Jove
Published: 1991-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

Three days in hell.

That poor kid had spent the three days since Christmas Eve in unremitting agony, writhing and turning in his bed. His voice was gone but his open mouth, tight-squeezed eyes, and white, twisted features told the whole story of what he was feeling.

A story Renny could not bear to hear. And though he came by the hospital often he could not bring himself to enter that room more than once a day or stay more than a moment or two.

But the priest, Bill RyanFather Bill as Renny had come to think of himhe stuck by the kid’s side, sitting by the bed like some guardian angel, holding his hand, talking and reading and praying into ears that weren’t listening.

“They say his mind’s gone,” Father Bill told Renny and Nick on the morning of the fourth day.

This fellow Nick, late twenties and homely as all hell, was some sort of scientific professor at Columbia. He’d been in and out, hanging with the priest since Christmas night. Renny learned that the prof was a former St. F.‘s orphan too. Good to see an orphan kid go from nothing to being a hotshot scientist. And seeing as they had St. F.‘s in common, the prof was all right in Renny’s book.

The three of them were sipping coffee in the parent lounge of the pediatric wing where Danny had one of the few private rooms. Late morning sunlight poured in through the wide picture windows and glared off the remnants of the Christmas snow on the rooftops around them, warming the room until the heat was almost stifling.

“I’m not surprised,” Nick said. “And your mind’U be gone soon as well if you don’t get some rest.”

“I’ll be okay.”

“He’s right, Father,” Renny said. “You’re heading for a breakdown at about ninety miles an hour. You can’t keep going like this.”

The priest shrugged. “I can always catch up. But Danny who knows how much time he’s got left?”

Renny wondered how much time Father Bill had left before he collapsed. He looked like hell. His eyes were sunken halfway into his head, his hair was unkempt from running his hands through it every couple of minutes, and he needed a shave. He looked like an escapee from the drunk tank.

And Renny was feeling like one. He hadn’t had much sleep himself. Seemed like he’d been on a treadmill since Christmas Eve, which wasn’t sitting well at all with Joanne. Bad enough he’d missed Christmas morninggood thing they didn’t have any kids or he’d really be in the dog housebut he’d also missed Christmas dinner at his in-laws’. It wasn’t that he didn’t like his in-lawsthey were okay folksit was just that he was in deep shit with the department. A suspect in an attempted murder case had been transferred to him at Downstate, and a few hours later all he had in custody was a pile of stinking goo.

Renny’s stomach gave a little heave at the memory. Over the past three days he had

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