The Escapist by James Morris
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The Escapist
by James Morris
© James Morris
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First published in Great Britain 2005 by James Morris.
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ISBN: 1-905290-05-5
This book is a work of fiction.
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_Log 000000000001 -- I think therefore I am, therefore I act._
They arrested the code dudes in an operation sweeping the entire city. My Pocket Assistant beeped impetuously as Rodriguez dialled the tip-off pager number. Something heavy was going down. Nobody used those digits unless it was a dire emergency. I flipped the cover off the Phoenix handheld and studied the holographic touch screen. The message flashed across in chiselled 3D text:
_Pigs can fly, and they're flying right into our roost. There ain't nobody here but us chickens..._
I found a secluded spot in the changing room of Selfridges on Oxford Street, spoke the security code into my pocket computer, and hit erase. All my once valuable Intel account numbers, now useless and incriminating, disappeared off to digital nirvana, shredded according to American Federal standards and then scrambled still further by encryption software I'd bought from a Bosnian hacker for half a million Euros. I was clean. If somebody came after m