Shaw, L. C - The Silent Conspiracy by Shaw L. C

Author:Shaw, L. C [Shaw, L. C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 2020-07-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

FRIEDRICH WOULD HAVE BEEN PLEASED WITH THE PROGRESS his adopted son had made. Coming up with a formula that would change human behavior had been the old man’s idea, but the delivery method had been Damon’s inspiration. The handful of scientists that had come over from the Institute and worked on his secret project were in the final phase of testing. If Damon had followed the letter of the law, then the formula would still be in the lab being tested on animals. But he had never been bound by laws and so their test was a true test. A field test in a live population. It had been in trials for twenty years now, its earliest subjects Institute students who had no one waiting for them on the outside, no one to notice when they never came back from their training. Some of their subjects’ brains had been permanently damaged, meaning they couldn’t be placed safely back into society. Now that the large field tests were occurring, Damon could barely contain his excitement. He had alerted Brody Hamilton that it was ready, and in turn, Hamilton had set the wheels in motion for Damon’s coup de grace.

It was fascinating how much of human behavior was actually caused by chemicals in the brain. People thought they held the power of choice in their weak wills, but Damon knew better. So much of what drove them was chemical and then, beyond that, the subconscious. There were factors at play of which they had no inkling. His recent training in hypnosis had borne that out. But what he found even more fascinating was the effect that serotonin had on the brain.

His new concoction, which he’d named Ravage, was a cocktail of methamphetamine and ecstasy, combined with an accelerator his scientists had designed, that caused a particularly rabid methamphetamine-associated psychosis. An autopsy would just show the meth and ecstasy and everyone would assume that their dear departed mother, sister, brother, or whomever was a closet drug addict. And in the meantime, their atrocious acts of violence combined with their newly discovered secret habit would make everyone look at them in a new light.

Damon knew that Jack Logan was on the trail, and the exposure in the media would only help his case. That was why he’d made sure that his news conglomerate had given it very scant coverage. It wouldn’t be long before these unconnected incidents would draw national attention from all the news sources, not just the ones Damon controlled through UBC. Once word of the autopsy results leaked out, it would look like another national drug crisis. That’s when he’d make sure it hit all the news channels, with the spin that the recent focus on opioids as the biggest threat had made lawmakers less vigilant about monitoring the purchase of over-the-counter antihistamines commonly used to cook up meth. The authorities would assume there were tainted street drugs and would put all their attention on trying to find the source.

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