THREE
PHOBIAS
Dan had a restless sleep that night.
When he arrived at the hospital the next morning, he was irritable and bleary, and questioned whether he was in any fit state to see a patient. If it was anyone but Moses, he might have considered canceling his appointments for the day. Yet for reasons that made no sense, he wanted to speak to the old man again. The conversation with Stuart lingered in the back of his mind, offering him no answers but repeating the same question. How did an educated scholar like Moses end up in the state he was in when the NYPD arrested him?
What happened to this man for him to create such a defensive wall against the truth?
A lot of things, Dan reminded himself.
Amnesia was a symptom of trauma in a person's past, an incident so repulsive the only wa
