Lani Palacheck
Dr. Lani Palacheck is a character that appears in the Rainbow Six novel. An employee of the Horizon Corporation, Palacheck was one of the many scientists involved in the Shiva Virus project.
Biography
In 1999, Dr. Palacheck was involved with the Shiva virus transmission study that was run by Dr. Killgore. She was disliked by her coworkers, being described by Ben Farmer as an "arrogant, obnoxious bitch". Killgore did not like her either and assigned her to the night shift to oversee the test subjects. One night, a subject named Mary Bannister left her room in search of a doctor. Farmer noticed she was missing after reviewing the surveillance cameras and immediately notified Palacheck. Palacheck told Farmer that she was on her way to Mary's room and had him to notify Killgore of the situation.
Farmer found Mary a short time later at a computer in an empty room and learned that she had sent an email to her father to tell him of her location. After Farmer convinced Mary to return to bed, he ran into Palacheck in the hallway and told her of the email. Palacheck wondered if Mary had known anything about what they were doing. She was reassured by Farmer that Mary probably didn't know anything due to the constant drugs that were taken into her system. Palacheck asked Farmer if there was any way to stop the email but was told that they did not have the software. Despite this, Farmer did suggest that they could obtain Mary's password to her email account in the next few hours to try and stop it. In any case, both of them knew that Killgore would not be happy.