CHAPTER FOUR
“Did Professor Hale have any enemies?” Daniel asked the elderly, smartly dressed woman sitting before them in the staff conference room at the University of Virginia. He was getting frustrated. This was the fifth faculty member he and Remi had asked, and she gave an almost identical reply to the previous four.
“Not at all. Even those he debated in the journals respected him. I have been his colleague for more than three decades now, and I have never heard of a threat against him or even any serious anger.”
“What did you think of his trial?” Daniel asked.
The professor made a face. “At the very worst it showed a lack of judgement. Ed was a very driven man, and he felt frustrated that so many institutional barriers got in the way of research.”
“Institutional barriers such a
