“It is a forensic report,” Arthur said, “prepared by an independent laboratory, together with a recorded statement from Dr.

Evans.

The report documents what was done to my medication.

The statement documents the fifty thousand dollars that moved from you, Julian, to a private account of his in the Caymans, in exchange for the doing of it.” He said it without heat, the way a man reads out a column of figures, and that flatness was somehow more devastating than any shouting could have been.

I did not need to understand the science in that envelope.