Desmond Bagley - The Vivero Letter

I sat down. ‘And you’re racing each other – splitting your guts to get there first. My God, what a commentary on science!’

‘Wait a minute,’ said Fallon sharply. ‘That’s not entirely true. All right; I agree that I’m trying to get in ahead of Halstead, but that’s only because I don’t trust him on something as important as this. He’s too impatient, too thrusting for an important dig. He’ll want to make a quick reputation – I know him of old – and that’s the way evidence gets destroyed.’

Halstead didn’t rise to the argument as I expected. Instead, he looked at me sardonically. ‘There you have a fine example of professional ethics,’ he said mockingly. ‘Fallon is ready to run anyone’s reputation into the ground if he can get what he wants.’ He leaned forward and addressed Fallon directly. ‘I don’t suppose you want to add to your own reputation by the discovery of Uaxuanoc?’

‘My reputation is already made ,’ said Fallon softly. ‘I’m at the top already.’

‘And you don’t want anybody passing you,’ said Halstead cuttingly.

I’d just about had enough of this bickering and was about to say so when Katherine Halstead interjected, ‘And Professor Fallon has peculiar means of making sure he isn’t passed.’

I raised my eyebrows and said, ‘Could you explain that?’

She smiled. ‘Well, he did steal the original of the Vivero letter.’

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