The Clockwork Game : A Time Travel Detective Mystery by Nathan Van Coops
Author:Nathan Van Coops [Van Coops, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950669158
Publisher: Skylighter Press
Published: 2022-05-09T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 21
âThis device is encrypted with protection that I cannot bypass,â Waldo said. âWithout connection to my full database, I donât have access to the tools I need.â
I swore.
So far, all my purloining of evidence from Amadeus wasnât working.
Waldoâs full capabilities were hosted in the onboard computer system of my car these days, and since the Boss was still parked in the garage at the Rose ân Bridge, it was doing me no good.
âPerhaps you can simply ask Mr. Amadeus whatâs on the drive,â Waldo suggested.
âI donât have high hopes of that conversation going well,â I muttered.
The fact that Amadeus had a secret drive meant that whatever it was mattered. It was something he wasnât comfortable hosting on his phone or personal data cloud. His cloud wouldnât have been accessible on Attu anyway, but a separate drive also offered a modicum of protection when it came to plausible deniability. Waldo had at least been able to determine that the encryption wasnât biology-based. No retina or facial recognition software. Nothing to tie it to him personally. Most of the criminals I knew avoided bio-sensing security as a rule. Roman was nothing if not hip with the times.
I started tidying up the mess Osborne had made of my room while I tried to think of another tactic.
Waldo piped up again while I was putting away my clothes. âThere is one person on this island who has the anti-encryption tools we need. And she brought her computer with her.â
I paused my folding. He was right. Zigzag was the best hacker I knew. She could likely crack Romanâs encryption like a walnut. But I still wasnât sure how I felt about asking.
âZigzagâs been acting real strange this trip. I donât know what her deal is, but itâs like sheâs been avoiding me.â
âShe sought you out last night for the purposes of conversation.â
âAnd ran off right away without telling me why.â
âShe may have been socially embarrassed at discovering another woman in your bed. Perhaps she presumed you and Miss Parker had engaged in a bit of interior decorating.â
I squeezed my temples. âGo ahead and scratch that one from the euphemisms list, Waldo.â
âShe thought you were checking her oil with your dipstick.â
âYes. I get the reference. But I donât think thatâs what was bothering Zigzag. Something else is going on.â
âAre you going to break into her accommodations next?â
âTime will tell.â I picked up the book Osborne had found on my dresser.
It didnât surprise me that Winston might have a key to my room. He did run the lodge. But why this book? I flipped it back open to the note, reread it, then scanned the pages he had inserted it between. It wasnât about Attu. It was discussing the Nazis. More specifically a horde of artwork and stolen treasures that Adolf Hitler had acquired in Eastern Europe. Supposedly it had never been found. The page Winston had noted specifically mentioned a rumor that the trove of artifacts was last spotted near Warsaw.
Well, shit. Winston might be onto something.
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