No Place to Hide by Lynette Eason

Author:Lynette Eason [Eason, Lynette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4412-2329-6
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

NEW YORK CITY

Ian rubbed his eyes and stared at Jackie. “Where’s Holly? I’m starving.”

“She went to get lunch. She’ll be back in a minute.” She ran a hand through her hair and shoved the laptop from her. “We’ve been at this for three hours. Hacking into his computer remotely simply isn’t going to work. At least not with us doing it. If I had the right equipment, maybe, but with this—” She gestured to the laptop. “It’s hopeless.” She stood and paced and glanced at her watch. “We need to come up with a different plan. And we need to move out of this hotel room soon. Where is Wainwright Labs here in New York?”

“It’s in Armonk, about forty-five minutes from here.”

“What’s security like there?”

“Tight. And all kinds of firewalls on their computer systems. If you try to hack into it, alarms will go off.”

She nodded. “I know. I was having to be too careful. I either set the alarms off or I just don’t get in. Either way, it’s an epic fail.” She sighed and ran a hand down the side of her face as she thought. “What if we don’t hack into it? What if we just walk into his office and get on his computer so the FBI can hack into it?”

Ian laughed. “That’s insane. I don’t see that happening.” He sobered. “I mean, even if we managed to steal the computer, wouldn’t they have to get some kind of order to justify searching it? The email’s not going to be enough to prove I’m—we’re—innocent.”

Jackie nodded and Ian studied her. The faraway look in her eyes said she was hatching something. Ian glanced at the clock and sent up a silent prayer for Holly’s safety.

Jackie stood. “As soon as we have the names of the others the email was sent to, we’ll be able to start piecing this together.”

“How do you propose we go about doing this?”

“We’ll need help. I have computer skills, but not the kind needed for that.”

Ian blew out a breath. “He has a laptop—or a tablet—that he carries everywhere. Rumor is he sleeps with it handcuffed to his wrist.”

“Tell me more.”

Ian shrugged. “It’s just a rumor.”

“You know what they say.”

“What’s that?”

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

“Maybe, but if we steal the information, can it be used against him?”

“Why not? If we have evidence that he’s a murderer, I don’t think the authorities are just going to ignore that. The cops aren’t getting the information in a questionable manner, we are. They’re free to use it.”

The hotel phone rang and they both jumped. Ian tensed while Jackie answered it. “Hello?”

She listened, then shot out of the chair to push the curtain back from the window. “Stay there, we’ll be there in one minute.” She hung up and turned to Ian. “Let’s grab our stuff and Gus and go.”

“They’ve found us?”

“The bad guys, not the cops. Holly said she was walking down the sidewalk and thought she recognized the car from yesterday afternoon’s shooting turn into the parking garage of the hotel.

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