Chapitre 89: SECRET AND LIES [4]
'Guilty as charged,' said Charon, holding up his hands.
'So Ryder White doesn't know squat about us?' asked Sam. 'Oh, he knows there are operatives on Banoi, trying to locate a stable form of the virus in order to develop a vaccine that he hopes will save his wife.
If he hadn't been furnished with that information, the island would have been destroyed and all our hard work would have been for nothing.'
'All your hard work?' yelled Sam. 'You make it sound like this fucking virus is some kind of achievement.' 'And so it is,' said Charon.
'The ultimate biological weapon, for which potential buyers will be willing to pay untold sums of money?' He laughed. 'What's not to like?' Sam looked as if he was about to explode, but before he could say anything, Purna glanced at him quickly.
'Hang on, Sam.' Turning back to Charon, she said, 'What do you mean, if White hadn't known we were looking for a vaccine, the island would have been destroyed? Destroyed by who?' Charon sighed, as if her lack of understanding was becoming tiresome.
'After analysing the virus, scientists working for the Organization were able to predict that once the plague was introduced into the general population, it would spread quickly. Exactly how quickly they weren't sure – and in the event it achieved pandemic proportions far more rapidly than anyone had anticipated – but they at least knew that the potential was there, and so were able to instigate various precautionary measures.' '
Such as?' 'It's not a widely known fact, for obvious reasons, but for some time now western governments have been running scared of the possibility of terrorist groups developing biological and chemical weapons so devastating that, if unleashed, they would decimate the populations of entire countries. In order to counteract this, certain measures...'
Have been agreed upon.
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