CHAPTER 10
In his office in a quiet annexe of the Ministry of Health, just behind Whitehall in London, Douglas Ryan sat behind his massive oak desk, surrounded by the material giveaways that identified him as a medical man. The oak-panelled walls were hung with oil paintings depicting such greats in the field of medical research as Edward Jenner, Marie Curie, and Louis Pasteur. On his desk sat several items of antique medical paraphernalia, many of which should and probably one day would grace the halls of a museum. Pride of place went to a Victorian Microscope that had once belonged to the great Victorian, Walter Reed, the man who originally discovered the link between mosquitoes and the spread of yellow fever. That one single piece of equipment testified to Ryan’s own field of expertise
