The Silver Wolf (James Ryker Book 3) by Rob Sinclair

Author:Rob Sinclair [Sinclair, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2017-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

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‘Stop. Right there,’ Ryker said, pointing to the screen.

Fran Black pressed a key on the keyboard and the image on the monitor froze. Ryker turned and looked at her. They were sitting at one of two computer terminals in a back room a bland windowless office that was spotlessly tidy, not a piece of paper out of place. The room had three doors; one out onto each of the two desks for the Hive’s security zones, and the third which connected directly into the server area. Fran’s colleague, Graham Sutton, was still stationed out at his desk. They’d not given him the full details of what they were so urgently looking at. Ryker didn’t want word getting out of what the problem was until he had a better idea himself. That said, they’d had Dylan, the guy in the shop upstairs, lock the front door and hang up the closed sign.

‘You see it?’ Ryker asked.

Fran was staring goggle-eyed at the screen. She looked angry more than surprised.

‘It’s... I just... ’

Ryker focused back to the screen, where a young woman was frozen in the act: hunched down in front of the security desk, her hand a blur as it flicked a small object forward through the gap between the desk and the X-ray scanner.

‘A thumb drive,’ Ryker said. ‘Probably loaded with software to clear that server. Clever enough to do so without tripping any alert.’

‘That’s impossible,’ Fran said, shaking her head.

‘Clearly not.’

‘But... ’ Fran trailed off.

But what? Ryker wondered, but didn’t ask. But how? But why? But it’s not my fault? ‘Who is she?’

‘I told you already. Ffion Brady. She’s just an analyst.’

‘What do you know about her?’

‘I don’t know anything about her. I just monitor people coming and going. I don’t get their life story, I don’t even know what their roles are. I’m just a security guard.’

Clearly not a very good one, Ryker thought.

‘I need you to show me every other visit she’s ever made here.’

‘Ever?’

‘That’s what I said. I need to see every log sheet, who authorised her being here, which servers she accessed. I need to see the data logs to cross match what she actually did. I need the videos of her coming and going. We have to know whether or not this is an isolated incident.’

Fran gulped as though the potential ramifications of what they were uncovering was now hitting home. Neither she nor Ryker knew anything of Ffion Brady, but Ryker’s mind was already whirring with possibilities. What was Brady’s objective? Was this a single case of sabotage? Or was Ffion Brady a long-standing rogue operative, a double agent working for someone else, not just destroying data but probably stealing it too?

‘I need to use the phone again,’ Ryker said.

‘Sure.’ Fran pushed on her heels and wheeled her chair back then grabbed the phone from its cradle. She flung it to Ryker who caught it one-handed.

‘I’ll pull the paper authorisations first,’ Fran said. ‘We’ll take it from there.’

She stood up from her chair, moved to a filing cabinet, and rifled through a drawer as Ryker punched in the numbers on the phone.

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