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“It’s still in developo even faster if you were there as the representative from the People’s Republic”
“The governo to Bonefish Key?” she said
“It see to do anything I can But you are putting everything on this one vaccine What if it doesn’t work?”
A haunted look ca’s eyes, and his voice dropped to a whisper
“Then only divine intervention can help us”
CHAPTER 3
THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918 APPEARED SUDDENLY, striking the world as it was trying to stitch itself back together after the devastating war that had ripped it apart The epideht million people, and for that accoh it hitAmerica as well Within months, it had spread around the world There was no known cure Victi out in the telltale htfall Millions died; a billion were infected Before it petered out in 1919, influenza had killed more people than five years of brutal war had It orse than the Black Death
The gri Lee’sfoot on Bonefish Key She had flown into Fort Myers and caught a limo to the Pine Island Marina, where she met a colorful local character nah the reet her
“Hi, Dr Lee,” thehis hand “My name is Max Kane Welcome to Fantasy Island I’m the director of this little speck of paradise”
In his faded Hawaiian shirt and tattered denim shorts, Kane looked ist whose impressive resume she had perused A Chinese scientist of his stature would not have been caught dead without his white lab coat
“I’ around at the rippling palrassy rise a few hundred feet back from the dock “I’ve never seen a research lab in such a picturesque setting”
Kane gave her a lopsided grin “Not half as picturesque as the island’s current inhabitants” He grabbed her suitcase and headed inland “C’mon, I’ll show you to your quarters”
They climbed a stairway cut into the side of the hill and then followed a crushed-shell pathway to a row of neat cabins painted flao pink hite trim Kane opened the door of one cabin and ushered Lee inside A bed, ch
air, dresser, and desk had been tucked into the snug space
“It’s not the Ritz, but it has everything you need,” Kane said