Black Hat Magick Volume 2: Tango & Cache
Both having listened in, both Russell and Benjamin nodded vigorously. “I love this thing,” Russell said, gesturing with his phone. “It’s nice being able to talk to everyone else on the team and the spy versus spy part really makes me feel like you said: Mission Impossible. Do you know, I had someone from another … Read more
“I’m not the enemy here,” Zach said. She glanced up from her phone just in time to watch him cross his well-thewed arms across his unformed chest. As a member of the campus security himself, he cut a particularly formidable figure as he loomed over her. “And no, nobody’s raiding your lab. I just wanted … Read more
“The dean isn’t in this morning,” the woman behind the receptionist’s desk said, her voice a dead-monotone matter-of-fact. After a few clicks of her mouse she shook her head. “He didn’t leave me any instructions for you personally, either. I could convey him a message for you, when he returns, if you’d like.” Elaine had … Read more
Agent Toller waited for him to grab his latte before she waved hers at him speculatively. “I take it that Harwood is sticking to his man-of-little-action routine again?” She, of course, referred to the Dean of Engineering, one Richard Harwood, and possibly the least exciting surveillance subject that Agent Warren had ever found himself the … Read more
Elaine shook her head. “If someone is spying on him by leaving bugs in his office,” she said. “It would take some intense training and habit changes for him to address his own personal security.” “Still have your mind on that bug we found in his office?” Frog caught the pillow, set it to the … Read more
The gentle crinkle of ionizing air emanated from Frog’s skin as Hadaly gently brushed her holographic hand across her hair and back. The lights in Elaine’s room were off, but the suffuse glow from the various monitors, LED status lights, and Hadaly’s projected body provided more than enough light to distinguish the edges of objects … Read more
Larry Pilgrim spoke up. “Brad and I take German,” he said. “I’m a bit more advanced but he’s in my conversational classes. That’s how come I got caught up in all this. Do you need me to translate it for you? It says—” Elaine put her hand on the page, covering the text before Larry … Read more
The entire set of testing took almost three hours as Brad had predicted and by the time they finished a sense of night had fallen over the Law Library. Even without windows open to the outside and the artificial lighting, everyone felt the weight of the day upon them. Elaine rubbed her neck and watched … Read more
He ducked out of the room and Casey sat down heavily in a chair across from where Brad stood. He rolled his eyes and put both hands on the table. “Do you really think that I’m behind the fact this is still going on?” Casey leaned forward. “Give me a reason why I shouldn’t think … Read more
Elaine stoically attended to other developing facts appearing in the datastream of Hadaly’s investigation as she and Frog escorted the trio of cheaters back to the ASU Law Library. Larry Pilgrim vainly tried to engage her in conversation with a dogged persistence; at first Elaine thought he’d been talking to himself, with the way he … Read more