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“Dr. Bishell, you have to admit you are in big trouble from forgery of licensure. That’s a felony.”
“So send me up the river for faking my medical license.”
“Medicare fraud.”
“I never billed Medicare in my life. Looks to me the hospitals are guilty of that one.”
“Gun powder on your clothes in Spokane was from the attempted mugging in the hospital parking lot?” the attorney asked.
“That and target practice. Out some road north of town, couple days before.”
“Bullet in the FBI guy’s vest was too distorted to match to do ballistics on the bullet that came from the other FBI guy that got shot the same day. Fortunate. So now we have to go back to the evidence that is coming in from Los Angeles. It is sixteen years old now, but there are charges now for your extradition to Los Angeles to face charges of attempted murder.”
“I was framed.”
“Dr. Bishell, by whom were you framed?”
“That’s your job to figure out.”
“Bullet from Spokane matches several found in the storage locker in Alaska.”
“What storage locker? I told you, I don’t know anything about a storage unit there.”
“OK, here’s the chase. They have you on tape buying the gun that dropped the FBI agent in Spokane.”
“You seem to know the case pretty well for just getting it a couple days ago,” Bishell said as he scooted back on his chair.
“I have some friends from law school, and we help each other out. Cost me three pizzas and a case of beer, and we all took a thousand pages. Look, I can either look real stupid when we are at trial and hope the jury feels sorry you got me as defense, or try to know the case and defend you.”
Bishell looked at the attorney for a moment, and then said, “OK, everybody has a double.”
“Yeah, this double does happen to also have worked in the post office of St. Louis and have a photo ID that matches the name on the paper you signed for the gun.”
“So?” Bishell asked.
“Do you recall having to give fingerprints for working in St. Louis?” the young lawyer commented.
Bishell paled and sank further into the chair. “Fuck.”
“OK, now maybe we can start from the beginning. Dr. Bishell, if you can get out without a death sentence, I will be very surprised.”
About the Author
Daniel L. Stephenson is a practicing physician in emergency medicine as well as a retired military physician. Dan currently calls the high plains of the Americas his home, and he looks to the sea for the next great adventure.
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[LE1]Title page should eventually also contain publisher, publisher's city and state.
[LE2]Following title page would be the copyright page, with copyright, ISBN, and Cataloguing in Publication data.
[LE3]Following the copyright page, would be the dedication page, if you would like to dedicate the book to anyone.
[LE4]Somehow we need to know we're back in the timeframe of the beginning of the story.