The Armor Heist by D. Clarence Snyder

Author:D. Clarence Snyder [Snyder, D. Clarence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cybernetics, future, female protagonist, interrogation, corporate power
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Wednesday

“So, how were you going to find the truck?” Dr. Matthew Redds was very interested in the job’s plan. He did not ask about what Ægis did. Mostly he asked about what they had planned to do – what each man was supposed to do.

Ægis had noticed that Dr. Redds alluded to the mercenary crew, but he had only named Pigeon. By sharing minute technical details and keeping his lies small, Ægis hoped to keep the interrogator off Canbe’s trail. He did not know what real information his captors had. Pigeon had surely recorded the tracking number of the box on his phone. With that, Dr. Redds could know a lot about the job, so Ægis tried to stick to the information he was sure could be looked up.

“There’s no trick to finding a mail truck,” Ægis explained. “Delivery routes aren’t secret. Expected pickup times are published on Parcel Service’s information space.”

“Still,” Dr. Redds injected. “You have to know which truck and what route it’s on, right?”

“Yeah, if you’re trying to steal something specific,” Ægis confirmed. “But if you just want to hit a mail truck, all you have to do is sit on a corner and wait.”

“But, in this case, you were after something specific, weren’t you?”

“I was after the money Pigeon was going to pay me for helping.”

“Okay.” Dr. Redds would come back to the question. He needed to keep Ægis in a helpful mindset. “So he was after something specific? How did he know it was on that truck at that time?”

“Really?” Ægis looked at the interrogator with disbelief. “How do you think he would know a particular box was on a particular mail truck?”

“I don’t know,” Dr. Redds lied. “I don’t rob armored cars for a living.”

“He had a tracking number, of course.” Ægis fell into a simple conversational trap. “Parcel Service told him what truck the box was on.”

Ægis was getting tired of the circular conversation. He wasn’t dancing around simple, obvious information. He was sure he hadn’t admitted to committing a serious crime. He was pretty sure, anyway. The terrorism charge would be trumped up and both men knew it.

As a licensed mercenary, Ægis could do things like fire on an armored car as long as it was connected to an actual gig and did not represent a danger to the general public. The hiring party, not the mercenary, was responsible for any crimes committed. The legal concept of the mercenary was that he was a tool. Mercenaries had no motive in a crime, except for the completion of the job, so they were not legally responsible. It got more complicated where nation-status corporations were involved. As sovereign states, they had their own laws. Some did not recognize mercenaries’ statuses, and certain corporations, like Parcel Service, had special arrangements with the traditional governments.

Ægis tried to stick to a narrative, which identified Pigeon as his employer. It would be up to Pigeon to reveal the source of the job, and Ægis was sure Pigeon wasn’t doing that.

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