Darknet (2015) by Matthew Mather

Author:Matthew Mather [Mather, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Dystopia
ISBN: 9781987942002
Google: yBhErgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1987942000
Publisher: Matthew Mather ULC
Published: 2015-03-03T11:00:00+00:00

AUGUST 22nd

Monday

26

Lake Champlain

Quebec

Smiling white teeth appeared, floating disconnected in the darkness, glowing under the dim light of a crescent moon. “Stay quiet, Rahsatsteh.”

Jake didn’t need to be told.

Dean’s brother, Chuck, was using Jake’s Mohawk name, Rahsatsteh—he pronounced it raw-stuts-dey. It meant “strong like an oak.” Jake hadn’t heard it in a long time. “How long until we get to the other side?” he whispered.

“With this engine, about an hour and a half,” Chuck whispered back.

A tiny electric motor whirred behind Chuck, pushing the open aluminum boat across the inky waters of Missisquoi Bay at the north end of Lake Champlain. The lake was nearly a hundred and fifty miles long, almost big enough to qualify as a sixth Great Lake. It started in Canada and stretched south into upstate New York and Vermont.

A favorite smuggling route of the Mohawks.

Another Mohawk sat in the front of the boat, his eyes fixed ahead, staring into the darkness. Jake had no idea how he could see anything.

They were heading for the Missisquoi River delta, on the other side of the border, sneaking Jake back into the States under the cover of night. Lucky for him, this border was nothing like the one the US shared with Mexico to the south. The DHS maintained border security, but drones didn't patrol it. Mohawks were both American and Canadian citizens, with free movement guaranteed between both countries. Their smuggling was something of a gray zone in legal terms, so the border patrol mostly left them to it—and anyway, they usually smuggled American tobacco into Canada, not the other way around.

Dean and Jake had managed to crack the encryption on Sean’s memory key. Dean tried a few combinations, and, like magic, ‘1957SilverEagle’ worked. The data on the memory key opened up, like that. A hundred gigabytes of data, thousands of directories containing what looked like the systems comprising Bluebridge.

The Bluebridge core.

Max would have known what to do with it, but Max was gone, and Dean could only guess what it was that they had in their hands. They had no idea what to do with it. Not yet.

“Sit back and relax, Rahsatsteh, enjoy the ride,” Chuck laughed, putting an arm on Jake’s shoulder. “Look up at the stars. Play with your new toys.”

Jake nodded and settled into his seat. Chuck was referring to the VOIP phones Dean had given Jake, phones with end-to-end encryption that didn’t send voice data over the regular networks.

If someone were listening in over regular landline and cellular carriers, this would solve that problem. At least, Dean had assured him it would. Dean also gave Jake a voice scrambler that he could use if he needed to communicate over landlines or from a payphone.

Dean sent someone ahead to find Jake’s brother in Albany. Jake still wasn’t sure where exactly they were going, but he had to put his faith in someone.

Two phones sat in Jake’s lap—one for himself, one for his brother—along with the secure phone numbers for Dean and Chuck. Dean also

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