“What do you know of her?” Mr. Wright asked. “She’s a field agent and an Oxford-educated chemist, specializing in supercritical fluids, though she recently published a paper on liquid chromatography. I, ah”—Sam chose her next words carefully—“I hear she’s very clever.” What she’d actually heard was that Dr. Helena Moriarty, when faced with a man who wouldn’t stop harassing her, had taken up beekeeping, distilled the queen bee’s scent, and slipped it into the offending man’s shaving cream. After that, bees had swarmed him—impossibly finding him no matter where he went, wriggling and
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