Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks

Author:Catherine Jinks [Jinks, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

TWENTY-FIVE

The next day, Genius Squad began to turn GenoME inside out.

It was a complicated job, requiring a range of skills. While Lexi and Sonja toiled away over ciphers and subkeys, Tony helped Judith to review the financial data that had already been decoded. And while Hamish and Cadel busied themselves with the American interface, Dot and Devin were supposed to be keeping an eye on local activity.

Cadel's piggyback operation was short-lived; it stopped altogether, once the American operation had shut down for the night. But before that occurred, he discovered (to his surprise) that the online Hamish was a very different animal from Hamish in the flesh. Cadel would have picked Hamish for an e-prankster, continually planting booby traps and careening messily through databases with no thought for the chaos that he might be wreaking. Oddly enough, however, the virtual Hamish wasn't like that at all. On the contrary, he prowled around networks like a cat, silent but deadly.

Cadel was most impressed.

He said as much to Trader just before the afternoon update meeting. This took place in the kitchen and was attended by everyone except Zac—who was on eavesdropping duty downstairs. The proceedings opened with a brief status report from Trader; having first delivered Cadel's news about the dead prison guard (for the benefit of those who hadn't already heard it from Cadel), Trader then gave an account of his own recent telephone conversation with Saul Greeniaus. According to Saul, Mace hadn't been trying to remove anything from Clearview House. On the contrary. Having stolen Hazel Donkin's grandfather's fob watch, Mace had intended to plant it somewhere in Cadel's new residence.

"I gather he wanted you blamed for the theft," Trader told Cadel, with barely suppressed amusement. "Obviously not a very bright lad, in many ways."

"What's going to happen to him?" Cadel inquired. "He's not going to be charged, is he?"

Trader shrugged. "I'm not sure," he admitted. "But whatever does occur, it's not your problem. Your problem is breaking into GenoME's American network." He offered up his most encouraging smile. "Have you done that yet?" he asked.

Shifting slightly in his chair, Cadel was forced to confess that so far, he and Hamish had only just managed to infiltrate the node-code analysis program. Nevertheless, they were hoping to use this program as a platform for conducting raids on the rest of the system, once the computers in California were operating again.

Trader seemed to accept this. At any rate, he moved on, questioning Dot about the contents of Jerry's computer files. Had any further progress been made? When Dot revealed that most of the GenoME's Australian profits were going straight to a company in the Cayman Islands, Trader glanced at Judith.

"You might want to look into that," he said. Judith's response was to rub her hands together, eagerly. Tony couldn't suppress a smile of satisfaction as he scribbled in a memo book with his gold fountain pen. (Being a methodical and precise sort of person, he was the only member of Genius Squad who ever took notes during meetings.

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