The Way We Burn by M. Leighton

Author:M. Leighton [Leighton, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M. Leighton Books
Published: 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00

18

Noah

I stand in the center of my living room, draped in nothing but a towel, watching my life crumble.

Again.

How could I have let this happen? How could I have been so stupid?

He warned me. Dr. Cane warned me about what could happen if I got myself in a situation like this, but I wouldn’t listen. I thought I could handle it. I thought I could keep things under control.

I was wrong.

My brain is on fire, whirling through options, scenarios, ways to recover this before it’s too late. I can’t scare her off. Jesus Christ, I can’t .

I run my fingers through my hair, scrambling. My phone dings and I lunge through the door for it. I must’ve left it in the bedroom floor.

I hope it’s Poppy. I doubt it is, but I can still hope.

But it’s not. It’s Winston. He’s sending me the details about the blog Simone’s running. I throw on some clothes and take my laptop out of the drawer, logging in to the FBI secure server and retrieving the link from there.

When I click the link, what opens up to me is interesting. Very interesting.

The blog is a front for an operation on the dark web, as I suspected based simply on the level of security she’s employing. Most of the world’s population operates on the surface of the web, places where Google and Wikipedia and WebMD exist. They don’t need this type of security. Not normal people doing normal things.

But the surface web is just the tip of an elaborate cyber iceberg.

Beneath that layer, there’s a deep web that houses government operations, as well as confidential material like medical records and legal documents. Things that have more security than the surface web, but things that are still searchable. Both of those layers are searchable.

But then there’s a layer that’s not.

A deeper, darker layer.

The dark web is a very appropriate name. It’s a stratum of the Internet that’s so deep, so cleverly concealed and operated that even the world’s most brilliant minds haven’t been able to shut it down. It contains doorways into the most horrific sides of human nature, some so well-encrypted that even the FBI can’t get in. The only two certainties we know about the dark web are that anonymity is non-negotiable and highly advanced security is a must. We’ve managed to infiltrate and close a few sites, but more keep popping up.

More and better.

Human trafficking, arms dealing, drug distribution, murder for hire—one could find all that and practically any other vice or illicit activity that the criminal mind can conjure on the dark web. You just have to know how to use it.

And Simone Allen knows how to use it .

Although craftily developed, Simone’s site isn’t as unbreakable as she probably thinks. Of course, she probably doesn’t have reason to think the FBI would be looking into her either. If she found out, there’s a possibility she could upgrade. Go deeper. Get to a place where her dealings can’t be found or traced back to her by anyone.

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