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her. Our best hope's pr

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ddox narrowed his eyes a

g, don't look at m

up,' Krishnamurthi cont

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ded under her arms, or

soon after death, whe

sed. 'Mmmm, hm.

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d it to the light. 'No. Th

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dy pulled some blond hairs

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teen weeks ago. Five eig

we'll still get a good dea

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since the fuss over the

it right here in the

table where a large wh

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f a milky chord. 'Vic

the ankle. 'Good.' A tat

arsal bone. Bugs Bunny.

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tained finger and smiled

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throat wider, inchin

inal column showed slipp

off enough cerebrospinal fluid from down here' –

ven your standard lumba

e too much of that stuff

subjects've got about t

e wounds on the back. So

ent direct' – he nudged

vertebrae and carefully

caul – 'to the br

brain

urthi made a second inci

anipulated the scalpel

e frowned and looked u

ving

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something invasive here.

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subj

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thing wasn't injected in

ter could do it. Subjec

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what I

bed his temples lightly

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et stomach, blood and d

ind something had them t

ve to assume they were

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is arms and tilted back o

hypnol, barbs, mazis. A

a centimetre below the

aint ochre marks. 'Tho

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this suture

as silent for a moment

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aised his eyebrows. 'Now

ique was professional,

ipped them into a yellow

ial. It's silk. But the in

rude. The beta breast inc

t in med school.' He pi

t from almost the right place, and the incision is

al. Not profes

fender had a grasp of th

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rinsed his hands and pull

t he did before he

es

is

them into an anteroom w

aning the intestines at

and rinsing the contents

outer linings, checking

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ound inside the ches

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cheek and picked up a l

f brown paper. He remov

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clean, monogrammed ha

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the bottom of the blood-

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