Brain Jack by Brian Falkner

Author:Brian Falkner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction, Computer hackers, Law & Crime, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, New York (N.Y.), Teenage boys, Fantasy & Magic, General, United States, Science Fiction, Historical, People & Places, Military & Wars
ISBN: 9780375843662
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-28T07:26:18.335000+00:00

The lights were back on by the time Dodge and Sam entered the apartment. Faded wallpaper peeled back from the walls. There might have been carpet once, but it was long gone, and grimy floorboards were covered only by a hard-knotted but threadbare rug.

Some jackets, and other indeterminate clothing, hung from a row of wooden pegs inside the door, and a faded photograph of a sailing ship hung lopsidedly in front of the door.

The two dark figures they had seen were stretched out on the ground, receiving medical attention from the soldiers. Their computers were in pieces on the table.

“Any explosives?” Dodge asked the first soldier he saw.

“None,” the man said.

“I thought we sniffed out ammonia?” Dodge said.

“We did, but it wasn’t explosives,” the man said, and didn’t elaborate.

As per his instructions, Sam cloned the drive before starting the computer up and analyzing the hard drive.

It took him just a minute to confirm the extent of the disaster. The computer was wiped clean. The operating system was there, and some basic programs, but nothing else. It was as if it had just been taken out of the box. There was a scattering of code fragments near the boot sector of the disk, but it was garbage.

“This has been wiped,” Dodge said.

“Same here,” Sam murmured.

“Bleedin’ hell, what’re we going to tell Jaggard?” Dodge asked in a loud voice, then leaned over, talking quietly for Sam’s ears only. “Who else knew the location of the terrorists, do you think?” he asked.

“The insider!” Sam realized with shock.

“And who knew we were on our way here?” Dodge pursed his lips and answered his own question. “Same person.”

“You think the insider did this?”

“If it is an insider, then it all adds up,” Dodge said. “They would have done this to clean up any traces that might have led us back to them.”

“Then it’s not just one person,” Sam said. “They must have had people on the ground here in Chicago.”

“Not only that,” Dodge said, “but they were able to get in here right under the noses of the Chicago PD and get out again without being seen.”

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