Road 45

II

A month later, at a respectable 45 degrees Celsius, Bradley Willis arrived in New York from the military airport in Kent and without resting at the airport took a Packard Clipper owned by the army, assigned to a general who had been mobilized to Texas.

Despite his tiredness, he could not help but enjoy the luxurious car, and without thinking much about it, he drove to Pittsburgh to meet with Professor Angie Lena Turner King, who was part of a special Army program, as part of her work as a university professor and researcher.

He was now assigned to her team and surely had a lot to tell.

After seven hours of uninterrupted driving, he arrived in the city, which he found to be, among other things, an ugly place, with the smoke from the steel mills, an active railroad crossroads, and definitely the ideal place to lose your teeth in a bar full of workers on a Friday night.

He now understood why their university was more specialized in medicine...