Cold Reboot by Robbie MacNiven

Author:Robbie MacNiven [MacNiven, Robbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Media Tie-In, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Thrillers, Technological
ISBN: 9781839082245
Google: h_ShEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B0BQ4BS8XQ
Publisher: Aconyte
Published: 2023-06-05T23:00:00+00:00

18

Second Impressions

The Ghost had to decide how he would do it.

That was all part of the fun. He sat, scrolling through Andrew Bauer’s social media, ignored by everyone else in the busy campus café. It was an open plan space that made up part of Bristol University’s Priory Road complex, alive with the chatter of classmates and the patter of keyboards. The Ghost was too old to pass without notice as a student, but he was not too old for the university estates department polo neck he had on. It was amazing what you could buy at thrift shops.

The Ghost disliked students. British, German, or anywhere else, they were united by their entitlement and their conviction that anyone should care about their youthful, malformed opinions. How quickly those around him would cease their inane chatter if they knew there was a wolf such as he among their flock.

It just so happened that their arrogant attitude also meant they wouldn’t spare a glance at someone on the minimum wage, responsible for cleaning and tending to the environment they inhabited. That made his current disguise ideal. A groundskeeper on his lunch break, nothing more.

He ignored those around him as they ignored him, instead focusing on his Optik’s retinal display. More specifically, his prey. Andrew Bauer. It was like looking at a younger version of Thomas, resurrected from the dead. It made his fingers itch. He needed to kill him. He could admit it was more than a job. It was an obsession.

Andrew hadn’t been his first port of call in the UK. He had initially intended to track down and eliminate the mother of the family, Belinda. The location of her flat had been supplied to him by Kaiser’s anonymous DedSec informant, but finding the old woman hadn’t been as simple as he had hoped. A knock at her front door had gone unanswered, and two days spent remotely viewing the block via the wasp drone he had bought had shown no sign of Belinda coming or going. He had even asked her elderly next-door neighbour, who had claimed she had gone on holiday. The trail was cold.

In frustration, he had turned to finding out just who Kaiser’s DedSec informant was, intending to ensure that he wasn’t being double-crossed. Teuton had eventually agreed to give him intelligence that led to a prominent hacker named Wellend, though the Ghost had stopped short of contacting him directly. He knew his face, and that was enough, for now.

Thankfully, finding Andrew Bauer had been easier. It had been a simple thing to hack into Bristol’s student database. The Ghost had found the courses Andrew was enrolled on. From those he had constructed his timetable, finding which lectures he was attending.

One was about to finish. The Ghost had placed himself strategically across from the theatre’s doors. He nursed a coffee and scrolled through his online presence.

The girlfriend was a complication, but hardly so. He would kill her as well. From what he had seen on Andrew’s social media, they certainly looked smitten.

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