iBoy by Kevin Brooks

Author:Kevin Brooks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Published: 2011-10-31T23:00:00+00:00

A few minutes later, as I was closing the door to my room, I looked back down the hallway and saw Gram sitting bolt upright on the settee. She was perfectly still, her hands laid flat on her knees, and she was staring straight ahead, staring at nothing. She looked as if she’d just seen a ghost.

The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy . . .

Saint Ambrose

If you know where to look, and how to look, and if you have the ability to look wherever you want, the cyber-world is full of places where you can find out all kinds of things about all kinds of people. There’s the National DNA Database, the General Register Office (births, marriages, deaths), the National Identity Register, the National Health Service detailed care record, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, the Identity and Passport Service . . . the list is almost endless. And if, like me, you can hack into these places without any problems at all, it’s not too difficult to find out all there is to find out about someone.

But that night, as I lay on my bed in the darkness, searching through every search engine and hacking into every database that I could think of, I couldn’t find any current information about Howard Ellman at all. At least, not the Howard Ellman that I was looking for. There was a Howard Ellman in San Francisco, a lawyer; another one who’d written a book called Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery; another one who was “an accomplished designer and licensed architect” . . . there were hundreds of Howard Ellmans all over the world, but none of them had any links with Crow Town. I scanned millions of emails, billions of texts . . . nothing. I checked telephone records, council tax, gas and electric, the electoral roll, bank and credit card accounts . . . nothing. Even when I tried different spellings of the surname — Elman, Elmann, Ellmann — I still couldn’t find anything.

Nothing current, anyway.

It was only when I hacked into the Police National Computer (PNC) and accessed Ellman’s criminal record that I finally found out something about him. The information wasn’t exactly up-to-date — the last entry was dated July 2002 — and it wasn’t particularly detailed either . . . but it was detailed enough to convince me that Davey hadn’t been exaggerating when he’d said that Ellman was “a really bad guy.”

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