Moscow Mule (A Thom Hodges Romantic Thriller Book 1) by Chance Owen

Author:Chance, Owen [Chance, Owen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

5.

Like any gay man, Thom had seen his share of porn staring Russian men in college. Movies of twenty year olds meeting in the showers at their dormitories, or in strangely abandoned soccer fields where they kicked the ball back and forth before quickly abandoning it for each other’s bodies. According to the premium Grindr account his assistant had apparently run for him, these were exactly the type of young men Foreign Minister Dimitri Plankov enjoyed. And conversely, exactly the type of young men Plankov had sent to camps deep in Siberia if their homosexuality was acted out publicly in any way the government labled as inappropriate. As he scrolled through the Grindr account, Thom pondered this paradox, humming a few bars of Aretha’s “Ain’t No Way” over and over. “Oh but how can I, how can I, how can I give you all the things I can if you're tying both of my hands?”

Thom finished his sweep of the phone, more perplexed than he’d ever been. But before he reported back to Anderson what he had found, he sat down at his computer terminal in the basement to sweep the embassy’s communications from the last few days. The algorithms Thom had created made this largely an automated task, and within a few minutes, the sweep returned a single anomaly. A proxy email had been set up, originating in the ambassador’s office. Like a shadow, these emails were able to be sent through secure servers, but provided both sender and recipient a large amount of guaranteed privacy, or anonymity, given how they traveled as embedded attachments in other emails, attachments most sweeps would not know to open. Very few analysts knew a solution to this, but one of the algorithms Thom had designed was able to look simultaneously through both the text and any embedded attachment of a particular email account in a matter of milli-seconds.

Thom looked at the unzipped attachment of the single flagged email on the monitor in front of him. It was a file containing a series of hypertext code. Thom copied this over to a separate program, which decoded the series quickly. The file was from Ambassador Anderson to Foreign Minister Plankov.

“I trust,” the ambassador had written his supposed foe, “your dinner with Vice President Adams went according to plan.”

Chapter Fourteen

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