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“She pored over the handwritten notes Singh had made on David January: he was, it turned out, the doctor who had operated the defibrillator that had been used on Prospector, and he’d been married for twenty-three years now to Ann January, who was indeed a surgical nurse. Susan googled his name, just to see what would come up, and then checked up on his wife. She then called hospital security and asked them to locate David January and bring him to Singh’s office.
A few minutes later, Dr. January arrived, accompanied, to Susan’s surprise, by a security guard whose nameplate read “Tarasov”—he was the person being read by Orrin Gillett. Tarasov was behaving oddly: he wouldn’t meet her gaze, and he seemed generally uncomfortable to be talking to her. She wondered if he was trying to hide something; she’d grill him next. But for now David January was her priority. She dismissed Tarasov.
January turned out to be the squat man she’d seen leaving Singh’s lab earlier.
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