Event: A Novel by David L. Golemon

Author:David L. Golemon [Golemon, David L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2010-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Jack watched as file after file, hacked system after hacked system, swam before his eyes. The three officers and Robbins had been into every hard drive and networking system they could think of trying to uncover anything that would lead them to Farbeaux’s employers. It seemed that every computer manufacturer the world over was supplied with almost identical parts, and a few of those highly technical components had been hybrids substituted by the NSA and CIA. These reengineered microchips allowed a back door into every system using the components. That included almost every agency in every government and every system that was networked in every university in the world. Europa tapped into these deep-cover “spies” and activated them for piggybacking onto their host security programs and culled them for information, covering her tracks as she went. In other words, Europa would create a back door with the help of the magic chips, then cover that hole on her way out of the system, thus leaving no trace.

They had discovered that Farbeaux had started with the Antiquities Bureau after his discharge from the French army. That was obviously where he had acquired his taste for antiques and artifacts. Europa had discovered offshore accounts in the Caymans; the Swiss deposits they had uncovered were shallow to their prying eyes. It was Robbins who came up with an idea that none of them had caught.

“Maybe the guy isn’t paid in money, maybe he’s paid some other way,” Robbins said as he looked at Jack and the others.

“You mean like artifacts and antiquities?” Everett asked.

“Why not? It’s the hot investment of the last hundred years, safer than cash and easier to get rid of… or to hide,” the doctor said. “Plus it would explain his high interest in our Group.”

“Okay, where does that leave us?” Jack asked.

“Nowhere. We just may have figured out that however he’s paid, we won’t be able to trace it back to those people who are rewarding him with these items,” Ryan answered.

Jack stood and stretched, then turned and walked to the glass wall and looked in at the now still robotic loading system that fed programs into Europa.

“Doc,” Jack said while he was still looking at the interior of the clean room, “can you bring up his military record again and see if he had any service time at an embassy or consulate in the States?”

“Yes, I think we still have it out, let me see.” Robbins typed in a command. “Yeah, the program’s still up.

“Europa,” Jack said.

Yes, Major Collins. The screen flashed the words in blue script.

“File, Farbeaux, Henri, Colonel. Question, any correlation between his duties in the French army and visits or duty in the United States?” Jack looked at the others, who were watching the screen.

The screen went blank.

“That would be too easy, Jack,” Everett said.

“Maybe, but it’s worth a try.” Robbins looked at Everett. “I think the major may have asked something we just assumed would be covered up, but something like that could easily be overlooked.

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