The Midnight Watch: A Sigma Force Short Story by James Rollins

Author:James Rollins [Rollins, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Suspense, 90 Minutes (44-64 Pages), Fiction, Thriller, Thrillers
Amazon: B015WXSN08
Publisher: William Morrow Impulse
Published: 2015-11-03T06:00:00+00:00

JASON KICKED HIMSELF for being so stupid, so shortsighted. He considered yanking the power cord to the computer, but he knew it was already too late. In just that fraction of inattention, they’d stolen everything.

“What’s happening?” Sara asked, watching as he furiously typed.

“As soon as you logged on, the first thing I did was cut your computer off from the Internet, from the world at large, but someone attacked your server through your LAN. Your local area network.”

“And that means what?” Kowalski asked.

“The hacker must still be in the area, close enough to have connected to the system locally. Probably in the same building. They must’ve waited to ambush the system but first needed Sara to unlock it.”

No wonder the enemy tried to avoid killing her at the outset. They wanted her to return here and access her computer.

“Even the false alarm must have been used to lure Masterson’s forces away,” Jason realized aloud, “long enough so that they could get an operative close enough to orchestrate the attack.”

“But where are they?” Kowalski asked.

Jason continued to type. “That’s what I’m trying to figure out, but whoever did this mirrored their trace across eight different computers.”

Sara clutched her arms across her chest. “That’s the number of computers networked in this building,” she said, confirming his fear.

“Doesn’t matter,” Kowalski said, swinging toward the door. “I know where they’re at.”

Jason looked over a shoulder at him. “How?”

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