netwars--The Code 1 by M. Sean Coleman

Author:M. Sean Coleman [Coleman, M. Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-3-8387-5595-3
Publisher: Bastei Entertainment
Published: 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

Mitchell stepped off his motorbike and hunkered down to lock it to the chain he left bolted to the ground in the NCCU car park. He loved his bike, and he loved the freedom it gave him in the city. A hugely powerful superbike wasn’t the standard mode of transport among his colleagues, and they often commented on it. About a year ago, they had started calling him TT — apparently after the famously dangerous bike race. It was a stupid nickname, but he hadn’t minded — everyone in NCCU had a nickname — it had almost helped him to fit in, but it hadn’t stuck. Now they just called him Mitchell.

As he crossed the car park he waved at Sheila Davies, the Head of Operations at the NCCU and the lynchpin of organisation in the department. There was nothing that happened in the department that she didn’t know about for long. She was known in-house as Selma — after one of the chain-smoking sisters in The Simpsons — and she was, true to form, smoking a cigarette. She had a cardboard tray with several take-away coffees balanced in her other hand and she smiled grimly at Mitchell as he approached. She stubbed out her cigarette in the metal container on the low wall. He put her somewhere in her early fifties, but he wouldn’t like to put money on it. Besides, she’d probably kill him for saying so.

Selma was as tough as old boots, but she seemed to have a soft spot for Mitchell, and he always appreciated her no-nonsense approach. She was one of the only people who didn’t treat him like a kid, for one thing. She had first met him when he had been brought into the NCCU as a member of a Tiger Team — the term used to described a group of former bad-boy hackers who’d turned from the Dark Side (generally after realising how much money there was to be made by protecting companies and government agencies from their former colleagues). He was the only one of his team who had agreed to stay on to help the department after the placement had come to an end, and that had mainly been down to the fact that she had bullied the bosses into keeping him.

‘You look terrible,’ she said, with only a hint of concern as Mitchell lifted off his helmet and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He felt terrible.

‘I didn’t get a lot of sleep.’

‘Getting up to no good in the wilds of the web again?’ she said lightly, though her eyes told him she wasn’t in a light-hearted mood. Selma knew that Mitchell still hacked at night, but she didn’t know, as no one knew, that he operated under the online name of Strider. He hoped today wouldn’t be the day that she, or anyone else, found that out. He had a very bad feeling about this new development in the Prince affair.

‘Is one of those for me?’ He pointed at the coffees.

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