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Chapters (73)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. PART I
  6. Chapter 1.
  7. Chapter 2.
  8. Chapter 3.
  9. Chapter 4.
  10. Chapter 5.
  11. Chapter 6.
  12. Chapter 7.
  13. Chapter 8.
  14. Chapter 9.
  15. Chapter 10.
  16. Chapter 11.
  17. Chapter 12.
  18. Chapter 13.
  19. Chapter 14.
  20. Chapter 15.
  21. Chapter 16.
  22. Chapter 17.
  23. Chapter 18.
  24. Chapter 19.
  25. Chapter 20.
  26. Chapter 21.
  27. Chapter 22.
  28. Chapter 23.
  29. Chapter 24.
  30. PART II
  31. Chapter 25.
  32. Chapter 26.
  33. Chapter 27.
  34. Chapter 28.
  35. Chapter 29.
  36. Chapter 30.
  37. Chapter 31.
  38. Chapter 32.
  39. Chapter 33.
  40. Chapter 34.
  41. Chapter 35.
  42. Chapter 36.
  43. Chapter 37.
  44. Chapter 38.
  45. Chapter 39.
  46. Chapter 40.
  47. Chapter 41.
  48. Chapter 42.
  49. Chapter 43.
  50. Chapter 44.
  51. PART III
  52. Chapter 45.
  53. Chapter 46.
  54. Chapter 47.
  55. Chapter 48.
  56. Chapter 49.
  57. Chapter 50.
  58. Chapter 51.
  59. Chapter 52.
  60. Chapter 53.
  61. Chapter 54.
  62. Chapter 55.
  63. Chapter 56.
  64. Chapter 57.
  65. Chapter 58.
  66. Chapter 59.
  67. Chapter 60.
  68. Chapter 61.
  69. Chapter 62.
  70. Chapter 63.
  71. Chapter 64.
  72. EPILOGUE
  73. ALSO BY ROBIN COOK

Edmund hated nothing more than feeling powerless, which was where the events of the previous day had left him. Gloria Croft had fired the first shot, and then Henry Green provided the coup de grâce. Edmund felt completely blindsided. He hadn’t seen it coming, and neither had Russell. Russell was supposed to be the details guy who knew people who knew what was going on, the one who had his ear to the ground. Edmund had said as much on the long car ride home from Statistical Solutions the previous evening. Gloria would have been gratified at how long they spent stuck in traffic.

By the time he got home, Edmund was done sniping at Russell, and a dark cloud had made its way across his face and stationed itself there. Alice spent another evening staying out of her husband’s way and again, Edmund had few words for their son. With his scotch bottle as a companion, Edmund had taken up sorcery. He was trying to bore his way into Henry Green’s simulation software, willing it to come up with some way of limiting the damage that was being threatened to LifeDeals’ future. Short of relying on magic, he was certain there was something he could do. He had to get himself and his company to Berlin.

Chapter 14.

14.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
NEW YORK CITY
MARCH 3, 2011, 7:15 A.M.

The call early the previous evening from his grandmother Sally had jolted George back to a place nearer his usual moorings. One day before that, he had found Pia in the hospital cafeteria with Will McKinley. Lesley Wong had been there too, but George had fixated on the fact that Will McKinley had worked his way to Pia’s side for a month’s elective. Although George considered himself reasonably facile with women, in that he got along with most, Will was a more practiced seducer with fewer scruples. George wouldn’t have imagined Pia would be interested in a guy like Will but what did he know? Jealousy was a cruel emotion and while the four of them had sat together he’d suffered through believing Will was reveling at the scale of George’s discomfort. Will had never made any secret of just how attractive he found Pia. More than once, he’d asked George what he thought Pia saw in him. George secretly enjoyed Will’s rude question because it implied that he as well as others saw him and Pia as some kind of couple.