Net Force (1998) by Clancy Tom - Net Force 01

Author:Clancy, Tom - Net Force 01 [01, Clancy, Tom - Net Force]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-03-17T20:24:09+00:00

"Uh, okay, sure," came out of Tyrone's mouth. Who said that? Are you insane? Death! Dismemberment!

Destruction! Aaiiee! screamed the voice of selfpreservation as it tried to dig a hole under the rock. "Oh, thank you. Okay, here is my number,"

Bella said. "Call me and we can set up a time, pross?"

Oh, yes, we pross! Bonebreaker Lemott taking us apart like an overcooked chicken, that's what we pross!

Tyrone took the slip of paper from her and smiled reflexively.

"Pp-pross."

She smiled, turned and walked away. Well, she swayed away, something like a Polynesian princess on a white sand beach in the hot sunshine might sway as she moved. Ruler of all she surveyed. Lust reared its head in Tyrone. At the same time, fear dried his mouth to a consistency roughly that of a pile of bones left to bleach a hundred years in the Gobi Desert sunshine. That's our future, fool! Run, hide, change your name, leave town!

"Ty-rone! Was that Bella you were talking to?' ' Tyrone stared at Jimmy Joe. All he could do was nod stupidly. "Man! Way to go, Ty-rone! Studly Dudley! Oh, and congratulations on getting your black belt, too."

Tyrone frowned at Jimmy Joe. "What? What black belt?"

"The one you're gonna need when Bonebreaker finds out you're trying to complete a hot circuit with Bella. Either that, or a gun. Me, I'd want the gun."

"I wasn't trying to make a circuit! She just stopped to ask me something! To help her with her Basic Cee stuff!"

"Uh-huh."

"No, really! She gave me her number, I'm supposed to call her, we're going to get together later, to--to ...uh ..."

"Somewhere private, like, say, oh, her place?" Jimmy Joe prompted. "Oh, man. Oh, no."

"Oh, yeah. Here's how I scenario it: Bonebreaker drops by, sees you leaning over Bella's tasty shoulder with your hand on her.., mouse, and it's sayonara, Tyronesan."

"Ah!"

"Well, maybe not. You could, you know, get too busy to help her."

"Right. And she gets pissed off and tells Bonebreaker I insulted her, and then he kills me."

"Sounds like a no-win situation, all right."

"Why are you smiling?! This is not funny, Jimmy Joe!"

"Depends on where you're sitting, don't it? Listen, if you're gonna die anyhow, you might as well enjoy yourself, right? Be a happy man when you discom."

"I think' I need to go to the bathroom," Tyrone said. Suddenly, he needed to do that real bad. Jimmy Joe's barely suppressed chuckles followed him down the hall. Friday, October 1st, 9:45 p.m. Grozny VR

gear removed, Plekhanov sat in his chair, breathing hard. How had that American Net Force operative gotten so close so fast? Yes, he had stopped him, wrecked his program, but that had been too near a miss. It shouldn't have happened.

He blew out a sigh and calmed himself. Well. He was the best, but there had to be a second- or third- or tenth-best. The reason for the attacks on Net Force's Commander and its operations had been to keep their decent programmers busy elsewhere. Their best were not in his class, of course, but at the highest levels, skills were not galactic leaps apart.

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