Ghost Rendition by Larry Weitzman

Author:Larry Weitzman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Humanix Books

CHAPTER TEN

“Have you found anything on Westfield yet?”

From counting the Starburst wrappers, it looked like Pratt had been up all night working on his computer.

“You can’t rush these things,” Pratt responded.

I tried to clean the stains out of the carpet with mixed success. It no longer looked like blood, but the color of the carpet had turned to a disturbing orange. The couch was a lost cause. I would have to drape a blanket over it until I had time to replace it.

I hadn’t gotten much rest myself, watching over Caroline. I’m not sure I would have slept anyway. I had peeked in on Suzanne using the Big House’s webcams. I felt bad about violating her privacy, but I couldn’t help myself. Watching her cry and Rowan comfort her was my punishment. I clicked off before it went beyond that, but I couldn’t get the image out of my mind.

They were all out of the house now. It was time for a visit. “Keep an eye on Caroline. You need to check her every half hour,” I said.

Pratt nodded and was back to work. I was beginning to lose hope that he was ever going to crack the CIA servers, and the clock was ticking. Westfield would uncover my identity and where I lived eventually. I had to figure out a way to unravel what was going on and get to him first.

I took a jog to the Big House. I came at it from the rear and let myself in the back door. I didn’t want a nosy neighbor telling Suzanne I’d dropped by.

The webcam I had planted in Devon’s room had captured him inputting his password. I had watched the feed from the camera as Devon sat alone at his computer. His face had been completely intent. It reminded me too much of Pratt.

I plugged a thumb drive into his computer and downloaded every file and folder on the hard drive. I uploaded an industrial strength decryption program and worked my way through a few that were encrypted. I also uploaded a spyware program that would let me follow what he was doing on his computer remotely. I could have had Pratt hack into his computer for me, but that seemed like a bigger violation of Devon’s privacy. This was between the two of us. I sneaked back out, dropped my child support check in the mailbox and jogged home.

I looked at the encrypted files first. It was a fairly typical collection of porn and fantasy game stuff. It looked like he and his friends had been pranking some of their classmates, sending porn to them anonymously. Visualizing those uptight private school kids seeing porn pop up made me smile. I couldn’t figure out exactly what the fantasy stuff was about, but it looked like they were hacking into gaming sites to steal virtual weapons and such. Not a great hobby, but a victimless crime. I waited for Devon to come home and followed what he did on his computer to make sure there wasn’t anything else going on.

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