Fakes and Lies by Jane A. Adams

Author:Jane A. Adams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780727887696
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2017-11-21T08:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

Alfie Kounis lived in a clifftop house on the outskirts of a small village. Alec did not recognize the name of Inscliffe, but then the settlement was so small you might have driven through it and never noticed it. Alfie’s house was small too, just a very small cottage built in local stone and almost overshadowed by a second building that was revealed when the security light came on. It looked, at first glance, like a double garage, but without the up-and-over doors.

The door opened straight into the living room and Alfie, barefoot and wearing tracksuit bottoms and a loose shirt, motioned them to sit down. Alec glanced at his watch and noted that it was almost one in the morning.

‘Sorry about the time,’ Annie said. ‘But as I said on the phone, we need a bit of help.’

‘Sit down. I’ll get some coffee and you can tell me what you need.’

Alfie seemed unperturbed by his nocturnal visitors, Alec thought.

Alfie set a tray with coffee and cake and sandwiches on the low table in front of the settee on which Alec had flopped. He suddenly realized how tired he was.

‘I thought you might be hungry,’ Alfie said. ‘Unless Annie’s changed a lot,’ – he turned to address Alec – ‘she never turns down an opportunity for food.’

Alec suddenly realized that he was starving. He had grabbed something quickly at lunchtime but had then driven home, and there’d been no time afterwards to eat or even to drink. He took advantage now, while Annie filled in the details for Alfie, telling him about Patrick and the blue car and her encounter with the police at the warehouse.

‘When you told me you needed CCTV access,’ Alfie said, ‘I made a few calls. If you give me the addresses I can go and set things up, and we can piggyback on one of the security systems close to the warehouse. We’re lucky, it’s quite a large area of real estate and the owners have a centrally controlled system that can be remotely accessed. My friends have managed to hack into that and I think we should be able to pick something up from the main system near Bee’s house.’

Alec must’ve looked sceptical because Alfie said, ‘People think CCTV is a closed system and the camera systems themselves are, but the data is most often saved to a hard drive and that hard drive is usually on a networked system. Most computers have internet access so ultimately all of the systems are linked to a mainframe or central hub somewhere. All you need is access to the main computer network. It’s like …’ – he paused, thinking of an analogy – ‘it’s like once you’re on the main motorway system, one way or another that links to everywhere else.’

Alec wanted to ask about the legality of that but he bit down on the question. He didn’t want to know and he found he was eager to see what Alfie was actually capable of.

Alfie disappeared for a while and Alec guessed that he’d gone into the building that wasn’t a double garage.

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