15

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15After Allan dropped him home, Vince sent out for a pizza, flopped on the couch, and reflected on the meeting. One thing stood out—Fletcher Smit was a bully and a manipulator, and hopefully he wasn’t in Abgrow purely to feather his own nest. Vince wondered what sort of trouble he’d run away from in South Africa. He shot off a text to Elena to see if she could find out. Not that it was any skin off Vince’s nose if Fletcher was a crook, but he thought Allan should know. He pulled out the list of conditions Ed Cercovich had given him and grimaced—it might as well have been in Swahili. He googled insulinoma: ‘an insulin-secreting tumour of the pancreas gland causing hypoglycaemia’. That could explain it. He picked up his mobile and punched in Sarah’s number. ‘What about an insulinoma? It’s

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