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“The lab?

?s work and location were tightly held secrets, but so with the staff Joe and I think that the lab’s disappearance, the bathysphere attack, and the attempt to kidnap you are all connected Dr Kane told me about the medusa project What was the exact nature of your work at the Florida lab?”

“I’y,” Lee said “I stayed on Bonefish Key to concentrate on the probable path an epidemic would take and how best to position our resources and the vaccine-production facilities”

“That would ral part of the project”

“I like to think so The vaccine would be useless without a strategy to deploy it It would be as if a general sent his troops into battle without a plan”

“What would have happened to the project if you had been kidnapped?”

“Notof the shoulders “The plans are al for the cure to be synthesized into a viable vaccine With the lab gone, there isn’t ”

“Don’t give up hope, Dr Lee The lab is the object of a massive search In fact, Joe and I are on our way to Micronesia to see if we can help the searchers”

Lee dropped her gaze to theon the table

“You’re going to Pohnpei?” she asked

“It looks that way,” Austin said “Have you been there?”

“No, but the island was the epicenter of the deadly epide fleet in the nificant”

“In ay, Dr Lee?”

“At Harvard Medical School, I did a paper for a Professor Codman that was based on an article I came across in an old medical journal The doctor rote the article had co men who had been virtually disease-free forlives”

Austin tried to glance at his watch without being obvious He had little interest in oddballup provided a convenient out