April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik

Author:Jay Winik [Winik, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Suspense fiction, Terrorists, Terrorism, Espionage, United States, Thrillers, Young women, Richmond (Va.), Terrorism - Prevention, Undercover operations, Prevention
ISBN: 9780060194659
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2001-03-15T06:41:21+00:00

There was frost outside. Petra saw it on the windscreens of the cars parked beneath the street lamps. It was still dark at ten-to-seven in the morning. She sipped from a mug of green tea and then sat down at the Compaq lap-top that was on the smoked glass table-top. The modem squealed as its electronic tentacles spread out, hunting for other tentacles to cling to. She reached Magenta House at Adelphi Travel. The computer in Adelphi Travel then looked for a host and came up with a short-list to choose from: Bank of America, RTZ, Nike, Finnair, Renault, DuPont, Crédit Suisse, Marriott. Out of dislike, she chose Nike. Each day, the short-list varied, between five and ten firms picked at random. From then on, the selected firm was, effectively, making the link. That was where the line of communication would be traced back to.

She visited the first of her web-sites, Heavens Above, which was dedicated to stargazers, comet-prophets and all things pertaining to alien abductions and UFO sightings. Ken and Bryon, the two men—or boys, perhaps?—who ran the site and edited the on-line newsletter, were based in Urbana, Illinois. There was a discussion forum for visitors, each message being displayed in chronological order, next to the name of the sender and the time at which it was received. When the list grew too long, it was edited by Ken and Bryon, which was what had happened while Petra had been abroad. She prepared a new message of no significance; what mattered was the name she used.

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