Название: Catch Your Death
Автор: Mark Edwards
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные детективы
isbn: 9780007458820
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‘I am interested . . .’
‘It’s okay. I don’t want to talk about me right now. This is about you and your future. Kate, you could have a brilliant future in this battle against viruses. You could do a lot of good. An awful lot of good. The field needs people like you, with brains and vitality. And you have that something extra, don’t you? A personal connection. Because of what happened to your parents. Dear Derek and Francesca.’
She waited for him to go on, wondering if perhaps he was about to shed a tear. But he quickly regained his composure.
‘I do hope you won’t think me presumptuous, but as soon as I heard your results, I got on the phone to an old friend of mine at Harvard University. Professor James Scott. The man’s a genius, and Dean of the Immunology and Infectious Diseases faculty. I told him all about you, Kate, and he wants to meet you. He’d like to see if you’d be interested in a position as a researcher in the department.’
‘Oh my God. But what about my MSc at Oxford? I’m supposed to be starting that in October.’
‘Wouldn’t you rather go to Harvard?’
‘Yes, of course, but . . .’
‘Kate, don’t worry. I’ll sort it all out for you. And, in fact, again, I hope you won’t think I’ve been presumptuous, but I’ve already booked you onto a flight to Boston. I’m told you’ll be fit enough to get out of here next week.’
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