Deus X by Stephen Mack Jones

Author:Stephen Mack Jones [Jones, Stephen Mack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781641294959
Google: 4yasEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1641294957
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Goodreads: 122811589
Publisher: Soho Crime
Published: 2023-11-07T06:00:00+00:00

22

The next morning there was furious pounding on my front door and ringing of my doorbell.

It could have been the cops, but I doubted that; they would have just rammed the door and started shooting. I was sure it wasn’t the FBI; they usually slithered up through the toilet plumbing with a warrant that smelled like bullshit. It was way too early in the day for Jehovah’s Witnesses hawking the latest copy of The Watchtower. And if I’d told Angelina Jolie, Viola Davis and Lady Gaga once, I’d told them a million times I was already taken.

Lucy.

“Did you get any sleep, kid?” I said.

She handed me a folded piece of paper as she pushed past me into my living room.

“What’s this?” I said, closing the front door and holding up the paper.

With arms folded tightly across her chest, Lucy said, “Open it.”

I did: it was a list of computer components and their costs. Their very expensive costs.

“If I’m gonna do this Vatican job right, I’m gonna need a shitload more than a couple high-end laptops and assorted thumb drives,” she said. “I need state-of-the-art, bleeding edge, SpaceX-type shit. I need my own power generator. Ghost servers. A dedicated, secured T3 line. And I need way more black-site-encrypted Wi-Fi gig power and speed than what Johnny-Businessman uses to watch porn in a corner booth at Panera.”

“This isn’t about crashing the Vatican, Lucy—”

“No, you’re right,” she said. “This is about payback—actual, tangible, quantifiable payback!—for dead Indigenous kids thrown into mass graves like rotting fruit!” Her eyes began to well up. “Goddamn them,” she said, her voice now a quavering whisper. “Goddamn them all!”

“He will,” I said. Then I took her into my arms. “Until then, surgical strikes first. Carpet bombing later.”

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