Andy McNab_Nick Stone 01 by Remote Control

Author:Remote Control
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Action & Adventure, Intelligence Officers, Fiction - Espionage, Fiction, Action, Suspense, Espionage, Thrillers, General, Intrigue, Thriller
ISBN: 9780552152358
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 1997-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

I went to the bag and I got out the portable backup drive and cables and a handful of high-capacity backup disks.

I went around to the back of the machine and had a good look. I connected the drive cable and plugged it into the socket. I was going to copy everything: operating system, applications, data files, the lot.

I now had to move the mouse. I took a Polaroid but still studied it before moving it.

I selected Full System Backup, and the computer whirred into action, loading information onto the backup disks. I went back to the filing cabinets and had another mooch around, not really knowing what I was looking at, just trying to see if there was anything I recognized.

Wup! The prompt came up, telling me the sniffer software needed another instruction. It had had to work out another password and wanted to know whether to proceed.

I hit they key.

The machines whirred again. I looked at Kelly. She was sitting by the photos but playing a game with an imaginary companion. Just like her dad; give her a job to do and she'd forget it.

"Kelly, I want you to come with me. If that machine asks me a question again, I might not see it--will you look out for it?"

"OK." It wasn't as exciting a job as she'd been hoping for.

As she sat on the floor with her back against the wall, she looked up at me and said, "I have to go to the bathroom."

"Yeah, in a minute, we'll be finished soon." It was exactly as I remembered, as a kid, sitting in the car, adults not taking me seriously: "We'll be there soon. Nick, just around the corner."

She'd be all right. I said, "I'll take you in a minute."

Wup! I pressed the Fkey.

Kelly said again, "I really, really have to go."

I couldn't think of the right words for a seven-year-old. In the end I said, "Do you want to go big toilet or little toilet?"

She looked at me blankly. What could I do? Using the rest room in a place like this is always a big no-no because of the compromise factor from noise and visible remains. What you enter with must come out with you, which was why I'd brought an orange juice bottle to piss into and Saran Wrap for anything else. I couldn't imagine getting Kelly to piss in the bottle while I held the film under her bum. That was one thing her dad could do that she couldn't.

She said, "I wanna go, I wanna go," and started crossing and uncrossing her legs. Then she stood up and was bouncing up and down on the balls other feet.

I said, "OK, we'll go. Come on, come with me."

I didn't need this, but I had to do it. I couldn't have her shitting all over the carpet.

I took hold of her hand. I retrieved the door stops from the outer office door, gently opened it, and checked the corridor.

We moved across the open office, through the glass door, and into the fire-escape corridor.

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