Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow

Author:James Swallow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan Books

WEST SIDE – DETROIT – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vande watched Jarreau’s expression harden as he peered at the array of data panels Chen had dealt out across the table screen. She knew that look by now; outwardly, he seemed impassive, unresponsive, but inside he was running a fine-tuned tactical mind over all the intelligence being put before them.

“So, what do we have on this man?” she asked.

“A whole lot of goodies,” said Chen, his head bobbing as he spoke. “Turns out that Mr. Jensen is a local… just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit. And get this, he was a cop. That’s where I sourced most of this data, it’s sitting there in a secure file on the DPD’s personnel database.”

“Give us the high points,” ordered Jarreau.

Chen took a breath and began. “Adam Jensen, born March of ninety-three, grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood, a B-average student with no youthful indiscretions of any note, later graduated with a Criminal Justice Bachelor’s from the University of Phoenix and enrolled with the Detroit Police Department at age twenty-one.” He tapped a still image of a young man in a dark dress uniform, a white-gloved hand raised in salute. Vande recognized the same face she’d seen on the rooftop, minus the beard, the lines of experience and the augmented eyes. “Graduated in the top ten percent of his Academy class. In 2018, he joins the DPD’s SWAT division and finds his niche, rises up the ranks until he’s leader of Team Two… but then it all goes to shit.”

Chen slid other images across the panel so Jarreau and Vande could see them clearly. The first one that caught her eye was of a front page from The Detroit Chronicle bearing the lurid headline MASSACRE IN MEXICANTOWN; the others were what looked like transcript documentation from closed-session interviews. Jensen figured prominently in them, so it appeared.

“There was a shooting,” Vande read aloud. “It says here Jensen’s SWAT unit were called in to neutralize a dangerous augmented individual… and when the time came to commit, he refused to take the kill-shot.”

“Yeah,” said Chen. “They stood him down on the spot, but someone else did pull that trigger and the whole thing led to the Mex-Town locals kicking off in demonstrations, confrontations with the cops and finally full-on rioting.”

“The target was a fifteen-year-old boy,” Jarreau said grimly.

“Whatever the circumstances,” said the tech as he went on, “by the time it was all over, Jensen’s career was in the toilet. Reading between the lines, I reckon there’s more to it that didn’t go into the official report… But anyhow, they threw him under the bus after the unrest, so he quit. Six months later, he’s headhunted by the CEO of Sarif Industries for a new gig as their director of physical security.” Chen paused. “Then, the info we have gets hazier. There are reports that Sarif gets attacked soon after by what appears to be a mercenary hit squad intent on wiping out their

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