Chapter 8
I didn’t tell the professor anything about the video right away. I wasn’t supposed to be on that case at all, and only wanted to get a detail or two to barter with Bruce Putnam. On top of that, I was quite confident the man in the chair had not actually been ritually tortured, allowed to rot, then fed to a pet raven for artistic purposes. Whatever the video really was, it was not a snuff film.
My plan was to slip the details in with the rest of the conversation, to get him to tell me what I wanted to know without giving away anything I could get in trouble for. So I just told him I had a question, and that we could get to it after we’d had a chance to talk.
He seemed happy to oblige me, and went off on a quite extended digression about Mongolian religion, the similarities and
