Thunder God by Rob Jones

Author:Rob Jones [Jones, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Ryan Bale was in his element, knee-deep in earthquake research and anything else he could find on Tesla and the various conspiracy theories attached to him. Now he was going through a file of documents General McShain had emailed over to him on the subject. They were heavily encrypted but McShain had given Ryan access to the decryption matrix.

“Not that I needed it,” Ryan boasted.

“Yeah, right...” Sophie said as she studied the Tesla research for a moment.

Ryan smiled. “For all its beauty I don’t think this is a particularly complex code.”

Sophie smiled. She could fall in love with this man. “That’s what I was thinking. If you look here at the first line it’s pretty obvious they’re using a rudimentary substitution system.”

“Yes, exactly, and... you’re messing with me, right?”

She nodded. “It’s just so easy. I don’t know why you can’t admit that you needed McShain’s matrix to read the files, c’est tout...”

“And... wait – what have we here?”

“What is it?”

“It's Victor Li in Hong Kong – he’s making a phone call, and thanks to when I put the tracking software in his phone we’re about to hear every word.”

“You can do that?” Hart asked.

Sophie shrugged casually. “Sure, there are hundreds of well-documented security holes in the Apple operating system. It’s easily done.”

“No, I meant you can do that, Ryan?”

Ryan ignored her and opened up the app on his laptop which he was using to track Victor Li’s phone calls. “I’m sure McShain’s files are very fascinating, but something tells me we’ll get more juice out of this.”

Seconds later they were listening to the gentle trill of a ringing cell phone.

“You think he’s calling Sheng?”

“Doubtful, but maybe one of this goons.”

Then two men began speaking in rapid Chinese.

“That’s about as helpful as a chocolate teacup, Ryan,” Hart said. “How are we supposed to know what’s going on. They could be talking about their favourite bloody noodle bar for all we know.”

“Oh, ye of little faith,” he said, and activated a real-time translator. Moments later they were reading English subtitles running along the bottom of the app, translating Li’s words from Chinese into English in real-time.

“I don’t know who they are...” Li said in answer to a question. “But they’re trouble. Big trouble. They humiliated me in my club and really went to town on me, and if I ever get my hands on any of them...”

“He’s not happy with you,” said a woman’s voice. “I would leave China if I were you.”

“For how long?”

“Until you die.”

“Is that a threat? If that’s a threat maybe I’ll go to the embassy and tell them all about your plans with the stolen American hardware.”

“Now it sounds like you are threatening us. A big mistake. You heard about what happened to Johnny Chan?”

A long silence. “I’m sorry. I can be trusted to keep silent, of course. Is the Russian in China yet?”

“What do you know about the Russian?”

“Nothing. I just thought I could show him some Chinese hospitality.”

“I would concentrate more on staying alive. Don’t call me again.

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