GREG ILES
Dark Matter
US TITLE:
The Footprints of God
We should take care not to make the intellect our god.
—Albert Einstein
All things return to the One.
What does the One return to?
—Zen koan
Table of Contents
“My name is David Tennant, M.D. I’m professor of ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School, and if you’re watching this tape, I’m dead.”
I took a breath and gathered myself. I didn’t want to rant. I’d mounted my Sony camcorder on a tripod and rotated the LCD screen in order to see myself as I spoke. I’d lost weight over the past weeks. My eyes were red with fatigue, the orbits shiny and dark. I looked more like a hunted criminal than a grieving friend.
“I don’t really know where to begin.