Within the hour, after a frantic phone call, he tried to flee the area entirely.

He did not get far, and the case against both men closed with surprising speed, for a reason neither of them had planned on.

Dr.

Wallace, it turned out, had kept meticulous private records of everything he had done, most likely to protect himself in case Christopher ever tried to lay the whole blame at his feet, or perhaps because he was too arrogant to imagine anyone would ever look.

When investigators searched his clinic through the proper warrants, they found what they needed, purchase records and patient logs that flatly contradicted the official charts Raymond had been given, all of it pointing in one direction.