The Damage (David Blake 2) by Linskey Howard
Author:Linskey, Howard [Linskey, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2012-08-31T22:00:00+00:00
I came back into the country quietly, using a different identity and rented a hire car. The Police would know I was back soon enough, but I wasn’t going to make a song and dance about being here. Not when they were so pissed off at me.
My first task was to meet Palmer at the offices we rented for Robbie and his watchers. We’d set them up to look like an IT help-desk team and the small group of four guys had computers, monitors and TV screens around them so they could keep track of the whole city. It was the screens that Palmer was keen to show me.
‘Give him a demo, Robbie.’
‘Okay, name me a place in the city.’
‘Bigg Market,’ I said and Robbie tapped something into his keyboard, his fingers becoming a blur. The screen we were watching changed, and there was a bird’s eye view of the Bigg Market as seen through a CCTV camera mounted on a roof somewhere.
‘Name a street somewhere,’ urged Robbie.
‘Stowell Street,’ I said, and his fingers darted over the keyboard again. Up popped an image of Rosie’s Bar and the Newcastle Arms pub.
‘That’s bloody amazing. I can’t quite believe what I’m seeing,’ I said, delightedly. ‘Robbie, have you hacked the CCTV network for the entire city?’
‘Erm..yes…I h..h..have,’ he stammered.
‘Good lad,’ I said.
Palmer smiled with the satisfaction of someone who has seen his protégé achieve the status of genius. I just shook my head in wonderment. ‘I’m stunned. We can keep our eye on everything now.’
‘And no one w..w..will know because all we are d..d..doing is tapping in and tapping out. It’s untraceable,’ Robbie assured me.
‘I’ve got something else that might interest you,’ Palmer said, beckoning me into an empty office and holding something tiny between his thumb and forefinger. It was no bigger than the SIM card from a mobile phone, and looked like it was made of plastic and metal, but it was so small I could barely make it out.
‘What is it?’
‘A tracking device,’ he told me, ‘you can hide it in someone’s car, or attach it to the outside, then you can monitor them remotely from here,’ he nodded at the screens. ‘You’ll know where their vehicle is twenty-four-seven.’
‘Sounds useful.’
‘It is. I think we should chip everyone’s car. In our firm, I mean.’
‘Everybody’s?’
‘Well, we don’t know who to trust right now. This could be our only way of finding out.’
‘They’re not going to like it.’
‘They won’t know, and even if they do work it out, fuck ‘em. We’ve got too much at stake here to piss around. Someone is trying to kill you. This could be the best chance we have of finding out who.’
I hesitated, but not for long. ‘Okay,’ I said, ‘but Palmer, don’t chip my car.’
He gave me a pained look. ‘It would be easier for us if you’d let me.’
‘I don’t want you knowing where I am, all of the time,’ I told him, ‘that’s not negotiable.’
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