tailieunhanh - Death takes a holidayby william youngpublished at smashwords by william young

Death Takes A Holiday by William Young Published at Smashwords by William Young Copyright 2011 William Young Los Angeles, California – Day 1 Dr. Lucinda Bright was escorted through the off-stage corridors of the airport, her mind buzzing at her sudden importance in the scheme of things. As the on-call medical liaison specializing in bloodborne pathogens for the Southern | Death Takes A Holiday by William Young Published at Smashwords by William Young Copyright 2011 William Young Los Angeles California - Day 1 Dr. Lucinda Bright was escorted through the off-stage corridors of the airport her mind buzzing at her sudden importance in the scheme of things. As the on-call medical liaison specializing in bloodborne pathogens for the Southern California District Anti-Terror Task Force - a title that was supposed to be little more than a resume enhancer - she d been called away from her lab in the middle of the afternoon to provide her expert opinion on what to do with a handful of Eastern European tourists who d been exposed to a passenger s blood on the way to Los Angeles. She had never really expected to be called by the authorities as a result of volunteering for the task force several years earlier - and she didn t consider herself among the authorities simply because she had a laminated plastic badge hanging around her neck - but here she was being escorted by Transportation Security Agency officers to examine a handful of tourists on their way to Disneyland for the Christmas and New Year s holidays. Tourists not terrorists she thought to herself but protocols were protocols and she had volunteered all those years ago to do this job if need be. The group turned a corner and then banged through a door into a hallway and past conference rooms exam areas and interrogation cells into which only the unluckiest of travelers were ever escorted. The fluorescent lighting worn low pile carpeting and dull off-white walls lent a bureaucratic dreariness to the areas which only enhanced their sense of foreboding. It was a décor perhaps intentionally designed to maximize a person s sense of irresolvable frustration and unrealizable anger you are helpless submit. Dr. Bright said a man in a suit detaching himself from a small cloud of uniformed government types from a variety of emergency services branches. Bright nodded and smiled Cinda please. The .