One Favor
One Favor By S. Leigh Farmer CHAPTER 1: IN THE LAB The stale air among the instrumentation racks hung heavy with the odor of ozone and warm shellac. The lab air conditioning labored at full strength, but a few pockets of uncomfortably warm air persisted. Valerie Owens shifted her weight from one foot to the other as she stood among the tall cabinets of exotic electronic instruments trying to calibrate an obstinate phase correlator. She could feel rivulets of perspiration...