Doing that wasn’t going to solve anything and would just advertise his own involvement in the Blackbridge affair even more. He could certainly gain satisfaction from rattling Levi’s cage until the man admitted that he’d been leaned on but there really wasn’t any doubt about that. The real question was who had done the leaning? And he felt certain that Levi would not know the answer to that, just that the order had come down from on high. Steven bit the bullet and accepted that he wasn’t going to get any closer to Sigma 5 by pursuing that course of action so there was no point in even considering it. Instead he simply tried to analyse the motives behind such a cover-up. Clearly, Sigma 5 did not want the press to know about the rats’ involvement in McNish’s death - presumably because it did not want anyone making the connection between the GM experiment and the change in the rats’ behaviour – always assuming that there was a connection. The little niggling doubt came back again, the one that said that there was nothing at all wrong with the Agrigene crop: it was perfectly ordinary oilseed rape.
