2005-04-21 An entertaining adventure

Nancy Kennedy is worried about her grandfather Jessie because he suffers from leukaemia. Curiously enough, Jessie's records and blood samples got lost in a fire when his doctor, Dr Buhler, had a car accident. Subsequently, Jessie was moved from Tucson Medical Centre to the Berne clinic in Thun, Switzerland, where patients are given a new chance at life thanks to a revolutionary formula called "cellular rejuvenation". Puzzled by such proceedings, Nancy and her British friend Bob Newman, a journalist, decide to travel to Thun to pay a visit to Professor Armand Grange, head of the Berne clinic, to persuade him to let them see and talk to Jessie.
To their astonishment, the clinic is guarded by uniformed armed men and Doberman watchdogs so that it resembles more a fortress than a hospital. Bob manages to distract Dr Novak's attention for a few minutes and Jessie confesses to Linda that a strange experiment is being carried out at the clinic and that some patients do not survive the experiment.
On their way back to Berne, Bob and Linda nearly crash into a snowplough which suddenly emerges from nowhere in front of their car. Does someone want to kill them? What is really going on at the Berne clinic? The quest for the truth is going to be quite an adventure for Bob and Linda.