Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures 55 by Trading Futures (Lance Parkin) (v1.0)

Author:Trading Futures (Lance Parkin) (v1.0)
Format: epub

planet are arms dealing, illegal narcotics, illegal arms dealing, and the oil trade. Narcotics and the oil trade have been in steady decline for decades. Arms manufacturing is, as you say, as blue chip a stock as you could hope for.’ ‘The market for time machines is even better?’ Baskerville shrugged. ‘Not exactly. It’s more a way of drumming up business. Increasing my cashflow.’ ‘By getting the Eurozone - or the Americans, whoever will cough up - to give you money’ ‘Giving me money. . . yes. I hadn’t thought of it in quite those terms, but yes. They will give me money. Now. . . I think I’ve told you plenty about myself. How about you. Miss Kapoor. It is “Miss”?’ She nodded. ‘What would you like to know?’ ‘You’re young.’ ‘I’m twenty-seven.’ ‘But you’re good at your job?’ ‘Yes.’ It might have sounded arrogant, but as far as Anji was concerned she was just stating the facts. ‘And you clearly have initiative. The CIA and the EZSS have been after me for years. They don’t know my real name, only one of them knows what I look like. Yet here you are, standing in my cabin, looking very fetching I might add, and you’ve managed to get to the truth of it in a matter of hours.’ Anji shifted a little uncomfortably. ‘Well, yes.’ ‘I don’t have an electronic presence,’ Baskerville said. ‘There were army records, of course, ID numbers. But I faked my death. Most people who fake their death adopt a new identity - usually someone about their age who died. I. . . didn’t. The whole world is data, now. Every square centimetre is just a set of GPS coordinates, every human being is just a serial number. The intelligence services have their listening posts, they have the keys to datanet encryption, they have their CCTV and image recognition software. This is a world where every syllable uttered is stored and logged. But I don’t exist. They don’t know my name, I don’t have an email address, I don’t even have a phone number or a lEEC account in my name. So they can 122

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