01.03.2019 Views

Series-AFigureLikeThat

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

A Figure Like That<br />

SIXTY-TWO<br />

Henry rushed into the room after he heard<br />

Sophie’s emergency alarm bell screaming at<br />

him from his coms, with two MI5 agents right<br />

behind him, and he saw the prime minister<br />

lying on the floor adjacent to her desk, gasping<br />

for air. Before he had joined the civil service<br />

and then a member of number 10's staff, Henry<br />

had been a field medic in the SAS, thus he<br />

quickly recognised that there were no obvious<br />

superficial injuries apparent to the prime<br />

minister and her symptoms did not<br />

demonstrate that she was having a heart<br />

attack, a stoke or something like that but he did<br />

recognise that she was responding to what he<br />

had been taught when he had been studying<br />

invasive species and their poisons in his tropical<br />

diseases modules at university forty years ago.<br />

However, all her food was properly tested and<br />

328

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!