Moreau 4 - Fearful Symmetries by S. Andrew Swann

Author:S. Andrew Swann [Swann, S. Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: High Tech, Mystery & Detective, Genetic engineering, Fiction, Science Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780886778347
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999-02-28T04:49:38+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Oxford’s car was little better than his apartment. Nohar would’ve thought a dealer might have had something a little better than an aging Dodge Python. The oversized red car’s fiberglass shell had been cracked in several places, and fixed with tape. Nohar could fit in it, at least from the legs down, but he had to hunch over to drive.

Still, he wasn’t in a position to be choosy. He pulled out of the lot and hoped that Oxford wasn’t the type to go making a police report about his stolen vehicle. Besides, he could probably trade some of his hoard on the street for something as good, if not better. The way the car smelled, Nohar suspected that was how he got this one.

The car’s comm had been ripped out and sold a long time ago, so Nohar stopped at a public comm on the way back to Beverly’s building. It was just as well. With all the attention focused on Manuel, he didn’t want to risk anyone tracing the search he was about to make back to a comm anywhere near him.

He pulled over on a street that was mostly empty, flanked by boarded-up shops and a vacant lot. There was a kiosk with a public comm, wrapped in graffiti that looked like psychedelic urban camouflage. The only people around were a trio of rodents sitting in the doorway of the building across the street. They were passing something around between them. At this distance Nohar couldn’t tell if it was alcohol or drugs.

Nohar left the car and walked up to the comm. He left the flywheel running in the Python in case he needed to make a quick exit.

He wasn’t a hacker, and he was never much of anything with computers, but his job as a private eye had given him the opportunity to pick up a few tricks from Bobby. One of those tricks was picking up people from their aliases—the handle they used on the net.

He was looking for someone named “The Necron Avenger.”

Necron was the name Oxford had given him, the only way Manuel had ever referred to his hacker friend. In his mind, Nohar was already thinking of Necron as a young version of Bobby. He couldn’t help but wonder if Manuel had met Necron under similar circumstances. Were they drawn together because they were both outcasts? Nohar had been raised in a human neighborhood, and the only friend he had was the weak little kid in the wheelchair. A mule in a moreau community was in almost the same position.

Nohar told himself to stop speculating about the kid and started the comm cycling into the public news databases. Unlike the commercial news databases, where Nohar usually did his research, anyone and their second cousin could post an article on the public database. Even with the rough indexing the database provided, there was so much information—most of it trash—that any given article was lucky to receive a single reader from the millions accessing the net every day.

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