than anything he could have imagined.
“Hello,” he said.
She looked at him, her face set in stone.
He approached her, saw the table in the next room with his favorite bottle of scotch, and some assorted toys, including a riding crop, handcuffs, ball gags, cock rings, butt plugs and nipple clamps.
Evans felt himself getting hard.
He approached the beautiful girl and placed his hand along her cheek.
She looked up at him, her face meek. Her eyes terrified.
She was warm.
And then he slapped her.
It was a quick backhand that rocked the girl’s head and snapped her neck backward.
Evans went to the table and poured himself some scotch.
He was going to take his time with this one.
Get every penny’s worth.
50
M ack was back in Moody’s workspace. There was a big picture of Einstein with the tagline “Think Different” and the Apple logo.
“I’ve got a team rechecking the information that led us to Piechura,” she said. “In the meantime, I’m focusing on finding that girl.”
“Good. I have a feeling both avenues will lead us to her,” Mack said.
“The best way in was through Starkey’s system. From there, it was easy to crack the first layers. But after that, things got quite a bit more complicated.”
Mack pulled a chair up next to Moody’s elaborate workstation.
“We’re crawling the trail,” she said.
“How?” Mack asked.
“It’s too complicated for me to thoroughly explain. Let me put it this way, whoever built this system knew what they were doing. They created millions of dead ends and false paths so that no one could find out where the money ends up. Now, some bright young man years back invented these things called spiders, in cyber form, that do nothing other than scurry along all of these paths, looking for daylight, so to speak. Most spiders would never be able to find their way through this. But since we’re part of the government and we actually employ the best hackers in the world, we don’t have ordinary spiders. We have super spiders.”
“Super spiders,” Mack echoed.
“Yes. There are several species of super spider employed by the FBI. Each breed does something a little bit differently than the others. I mentioned that most of them were designed to chase down blind leads.”
“Yes,” Mack said.
“Well, there is another kind that instead of hunting, is a little bit more of a gatherer.”
“What does it gather?”
“To keep it simple, I’ll call them data points,” Moody explained. “Basically, as the other spiders rule out some of the dead ends, these gatherers then go about throwing a cyber ring around the remaining possibilities and look for shared data, in pattern form. The more points that coincide, the clearer the pattern. In this case, one pattern seems to have become clear.”
“What’s the pattern?”
“Cell phones.”
Mack was surprised. He hadn’t expected something as mundane as cell phones to be a key discovery in an intense cyber hunt.
Moody nodded. “I won’t explain the algorithm because it would take hours, but basically at the same time some of these switchbacks were activated, a corresponding activity almost always followed suit, via cell phones.”
“So who do the phones belong to?”
“It’s not that easy,” Moody said. “They are no longer in service. Probably disposable. But while we can’t say who they were, we can say where.”
She turned to a map and pointed to Colorado.
“Right here.”
It took only a moment to realize that she was pointing to nearly the exact same spot on the map where the bodies had been found.
51
E vans was ready .
He wanted to be patient, but he also knew that he had limited time.
He walked over to the girl who was still sitting on the bed. He grabbed her hair, pulled her face toward him and kissed her as she struggled to pull away from him.
“I’m going to fuck you so many times your pussy will be worn out,” he whispered to her. He licked his lips. She tasted like sugar.
He
“Hello,” he said.
She looked at him, her face set in stone.
He approached her, saw the table in the next room with his favorite bottle of scotch, and some assorted toys, including a riding crop, handcuffs, ball gags, cock rings, butt plugs and nipple clamps.
Evans felt himself getting hard.
He approached the beautiful girl and placed his hand along her cheek.
She looked up at him, her face meek. Her eyes terrified.
She was warm.
And then he slapped her.
It was a quick backhand that rocked the girl’s head and snapped her neck backward.
Evans went to the table and poured himself some scotch.
He was going to take his time with this one.
Get every penny’s worth.
50
M ack was back in Moody’s workspace. There was a big picture of Einstein with the tagline “Think Different” and the Apple logo.
“I’ve got a team rechecking the information that led us to Piechura,” she said. “In the meantime, I’m focusing on finding that girl.”
“Good. I have a feeling both avenues will lead us to her,” Mack said.
“The best way in was through Starkey’s system. From there, it was easy to crack the first layers. But after that, things got quite a bit more complicated.”
Mack pulled a chair up next to Moody’s elaborate workstation.
“We’re crawling the trail,” she said.
“How?” Mack asked.
“It’s too complicated for me to thoroughly explain. Let me put it this way, whoever built this system knew what they were doing. They created millions of dead ends and false paths so that no one could find out where the money ends up. Now, some bright young man years back invented these things called spiders, in cyber form, that do nothing other than scurry along all of these paths, looking for daylight, so to speak. Most spiders would never be able to find their way through this. But since we’re part of the government and we actually employ the best hackers in the world, we don’t have ordinary spiders. We have super spiders.”
“Super spiders,” Mack echoed.
“Yes. There are several species of super spider employed by the FBI. Each breed does something a little bit differently than the others. I mentioned that most of them were designed to chase down blind leads.”
“Yes,” Mack said.
“Well, there is another kind that instead of hunting, is a little bit more of a gatherer.”
“What does it gather?”
“To keep it simple, I’ll call them data points,” Moody explained. “Basically, as the other spiders rule out some of the dead ends, these gatherers then go about throwing a cyber ring around the remaining possibilities and look for shared data, in pattern form. The more points that coincide, the clearer the pattern. In this case, one pattern seems to have become clear.”
“What’s the pattern?”
“Cell phones.”
Mack was surprised. He hadn’t expected something as mundane as cell phones to be a key discovery in an intense cyber hunt.
Moody nodded. “I won’t explain the algorithm because it would take hours, but basically at the same time some of these switchbacks were activated, a corresponding activity almost always followed suit, via cell phones.”
“So who do the phones belong to?”
“It’s not that easy,” Moody said. “They are no longer in service. Probably disposable. But while we can’t say who they were, we can say where.”
She turned to a map and pointed to Colorado.
“Right here.”
It took only a moment to realize that she was pointing to nearly the exact same spot on the map where the bodies had been found.
51
E vans was ready .
He wanted to be patient, but he also knew that he had limited time.
He walked over to the girl who was still sitting on the bed. He grabbed her hair, pulled her face toward him and kissed her as she struggled to pull away from him.
“I’m going to fuck you so many times your pussy will be worn out,” he whispered to her. He licked his lips. She tasted like sugar.
He
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