HOW LONG IT TOOK HIM to get to the hospital, not to mention how he managed to get there without crashing his mother’s car, Ryan didn’t have a clue. Not a single instant of his trip through the streets sank into his brain, and he only became aware of things around him again when he got out in the car park at the side of the hospital. As he squeezed past a middle-aged couple, the wife/girlfriend supporting her partner, who was hobbling and wincing with every step, he realised he didn’t have a clue where to find either Crash or Lewis. A large sign on the wall at the rear of the foyer solved that problem, however – it told him on which floor each department could be found. Since he knew from the constable at the house that both of his partners had been seriously hurt, he came to the obvious c

