Kid Normal and the Final Five by Greg James

Author:Greg James
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408898918
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

And then after Nektar, he managed to get himself in with Magpie!’

‘For someone who calls Heroes freaks, and thinks the world would be better off without them,’ mused Murph, ‘he certainly seems fascinated by the idea. I wonder what goes on in that head …’ He sank deeper into the office chair, with the sudden mad idea that by sitting in Knox’s old seat, he might be able to gain some insight into his game plan.

The blank grey monitors stared back at him, mute and unseeing.

‘What have you got there, then?’ asked Carl, tipping his milk delivery operative’s cap back on his head. He had been napping in the front seat of the Lean Mean Dairy Queen, which he’d deliberately parked in a nice patch of sunshine.

‘Clues!’ said Mary proudly, picking her way through the tangled remains of the metal gates. She and Murph were carrying the large black computer tower from underneath Knox’s desk between them.

‘Do you think you might be able to see what’s on this?’ said Murph as they manhandled the heavy box into the back of the milk float.

‘Well, computers were never really my thing,’ mused Carl. ‘I can certainly get it powered up again, though. And then we’ll let Lara take a look at it.’

‘Nellie’s mum?’ asked Mary. ‘Is she good with computers, then?’

‘Dr Lara Lee?’ asked Carl incredulously. ‘Good with computers? The most renowned coder of her entire generation? The inventor of not just one, but three programming languages? The woman who, while she was still a student, managed to define the variables that—’

‘OK, OK, we get it,’ said Murph, shamefaced. ‘I didn’t know your mum was, like, a super-coder,’ he told Nellie a little resentfully as she climbed into the passenger seat.

‘I don’t think,’ retorted Nellie softly as she buttoned up her coat and reached for her peaked cap, ‘that you ever asked.’

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