Intrusion (A Chris Bruen Novel Book 2) by Hirsch Reece

Author:Hirsch, Reece [Hirsch, Reece]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

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Zoey knew that she shouldn’t have made a copy of the flash drive. Chris would be pissed off if he found out. Make that when he found out. And Paul Saperstein and the team at Zapper would be livid.

When she made the copy, she wasn’t even certain yet that she would do anything with it. She just knew the PLA should not be allowed to rob US companies blind with impunity. As her hacker friends liked to say, information wants to be free. And, to her way of thinking, this information, which proved irrefutably that the PLA was behind the APT1 attacks, was screaming to be released.

So far the State Department had received a report summarizing the contents of the flash drive, but the original remained in her forensic lab. Her forensic lab. She still loved the sound of that more than she probably should. And a stunt like this was the sort of thing that could cause her to lose that job.

Although she rarely acknowledged it to Chris, she was happy in her new position. Although she considered attorneys to be a noxious subspecies, now that she worked among them every day, she had to concede that some of them had redeeming qualities. She enjoyed the work, compiling the evidence to stop thieving employees and ruthless hacking crews. And she was good at it. For once in her life, she was able to use all of her talents and get decently compensated for doing it.

Zoey knew that she had a tendency to sabotage herself in the workplace, but that usually happened when she hated the job. Over the past ten years, she had worked in a dozen semimenial jobs, including stints as a math tutor, a security consultant, a writer of graphic novels, and a bartender, holding no job more than eight months at a time. She hoped this wasn’t a case of her self-destructive instincts kicking in.

And her talent for self-immolation wasn’t limited to the workplace. She was also adept at blowing up any relationship with a man that had the potential of turning into something stable and promising. And she would categorize her relationship with Chris Bruen as promising. Unlikely—perhaps. Maddening—definitely. But also promising.

Since she’d started sleeping at Chris’s place, she had learned a few things about him. He wasn’t over the death of his wife, Tana, but he was as close as he was probably going to get without someone else. Whether he could get fully beyond his loss remained to be seen. From what Zoey had learned about Tana, she thought that she would have liked her, despite the fact that they were very, very different people. She had decided that was a good thing, because if she had been too much like Tana he would probably always think of her as some sort of weak-tea version of her.

Chris had developed some quirks in his years of living alone, and she knew that she had as well. The question was whether they had become so set that they couldn’t be adjusted to accommodate another person.

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