(eng) Niall Teasdale - Fox Meridian 01 by Fox Hunt

Author:Fox Hunt [Hunt, Fox]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Part Five: The Anarchy Meme

New York Metro, 26th January 2060.

‘Well, I have something for you,’ Brentmann stated after he had finished listing all the lacks he had. Brentmann was the most senior forensics technician they had at the precinct. He got called in to review cases when all his minions were failing, or Canard wanted ‘his best pair of eyes’ on the problem. The latter usually happened when the case had a political angle. This case was developing a strong media angle and no one was getting anywhere reviewing the evidence, but Brentmann was coming up with a spectacular lack of anything useful as well.

‘Don’t make me beg, Brentmann,’ Fox told him. ‘If I have to beg, I may develop a strong urge to shoot you in the knees.’

‘Okay, okay.’ He held up his hands to fend off the bullets and grinned, which was an unappealing sight because he never seemed to do much of a job of caring for his teeth. He was not the most attractive man in the world with his mouth closed, but it was a definite improvement. ‘I’d bump the probability of this being the same killer to ninety per cent. It’s the handprints we scanned off the victims’ faces.’

‘You got fingerprints off their skin?!’

‘No. Not that it’s entirely impossible, given the right conditions, but that’s not the point. We got no indication of structure to the fingers. It’s like he dug a set of finger-size spades into their skin.’

‘Ah… cybernetic hand.’

He snapped off a motion like shooting at her with his index finger. ‘Bang on. From the joint structure suggested in the prints, it’s a good probability that it’s the same model. Could be two people using the same model of hand…’

‘But given the other similarities in the crimes, it becomes highly probable that it’s the same killer.’

‘You’re on a roll, Fox. We’re going through this Buckyball’s data at the moment. Should expect some results later today. I’d say sooner, but the guy actually ran his computer as though he was an anarchist. Total freaking chaos in there.’

‘Okay, thanks. I’ll report to Canard.’ Fox watched as his image vanished from in front of her desk; shooting him would have meant going down several floors to the labs where he worked, but it would have been worth it. She activated a message app and composed a note to Canard saying that the same killer had almost certainly killed Trent and Adamshi, sent it off, and then checked on the progress of the facial recognition scans in precinct 29. Nothing there, of course.

Canard appeared on the other side of her desk without preamble. ‘You’ve got confirmation of the same killer?’

‘Not absolute, but good enough. Brentmann’s saying ninety per cent. Our perpetrator has at least one cybernetic hand, without synthetic skin. That means that none of our suspects are the killer, though it doesn’t rule out their involvement if the killer is being paid.’

Canard nodded. ‘We’ll officially designate both cases as yours. Dillan is going to be off duty for the next two weeks anyway.

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