The blood bank technologist has stayed overnight in the night duty room at the hospital because of a big snowstorm. She gets a call in the early morning hours to cross match blood for a car accident victim. She is all alone in the basement laboratory when strange things begin to happen in the morgue and up in the emergency department.
It all happened in my days as a blood bank tech at the hospital in the 60’s and 70’s. In those days we were rather short staffed and so after working a full day we would take turns being on call from five in the afternoon until eight o’clock the next morning. Normally, I would go home and come back if called, but this day there was a blinding snowstorm...
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Book 2 of The Commander and the Chief series finds the Chief "on the warpath" and "counting coup" with her enemies on both sides of the ocean. Meanwhile, she fights an indictment and risks losing her latest love, the Commander, as well as unleashing
“We’re going to use nine megaton warheads in space and we’re not sure they’re large enough to be effective. Why would you even consider using kiloton-range surface-to-air warheads as back-up?” The answer was succinct. “Because they’re all we have.”
