netwars--The Code 3 by M. Sean Coleman

Author:M. Sean Coleman [Coleman, M. Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-3-8387-5597-7
Publisher: Bastei Entertainment
Published: 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

Happy that they had done everything they could in the short term to ensure that Drax power station was not under direct threat of a cyber-attack, Rebecca and Roche had left at lunchtime, squashed into his small rental car. Rebecca had pushed her seat back as far as it would go and still her knees were pressed up against the glove box. She smirked as he wrestled with the gears, grinding them up between second and third and making the car lurch forward again as he stepped off the clutch.

‘If you can’t find ’em, grind ’em,’ she teased.

‘Very funny. I’m used to an automatic,’ he replied, without any hint that he’d taken offence.

‘You’re kidding,’ she joked.

She had figured out, throughout the morning, that the only way to have any fun with Roche was to be as tactless with him as he was with everyone else. She saw now what Mitchell had meant — Roche was okay, once you got to know him. There she went again, thinking about Mitchell. She had found him popping into her brain several times since she had jumped on the train up to Selby the night before. She wished she had taken his number. She wondered how he was getting on with the evidence on Prince’s laptop, and whether they had found out any more about Prince’s relationship with Black Flag.

‘Did you get hold of Franklin in the end?’ she asked, trying to sound casual.

‘I didn’t try again,’ he said. ‘I left him a message, if he needs me, he’ll call.’

‘Don’t you think we should tell him what we’ve found?’ She realised that she probably sounded like a child who didn’t want to get into trouble with her teachers, but she didn’t know how their chain of command worked. Surely Roche was supposed to call in with any new leads. She was sure that the link between Bacchus, the missing containers, the train loop and the Prime Logistics warehouse was enough of a lead to warrant another call.

‘We haven’t found anything,’ Roche said. ’Not yet.’

‘I still don’t think we should go to the warehouse,’ she said, again. ‘Not alone. What if we walk in on whatever they are planning? These guys are proper criminals. They could kill us.’

‘You watch too many films,’ he smirked. ‘Besides, we’re not going into the warehouse, we’re just driving past it. We may slow down a little, we may even pull over and stretch our legs at the side of the road. People do that on long journeys. Especially in a small car like this.’ He flicked the indicator down, filling the car with a plasticky clicking sound, and steered them off the dual carriageway and onto a smaller A-road.

‘Fine. But I’m not getting out the car, and for the record, I think it’s a really stupid idea,’ she said. She did think it was a stupid idea, but she was also secretly excited that they might find something out that would help the NCCU to nail these guys. She never got to do this kind of thing — she never even got to travel outside London for work.

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