Chapter 1
The wait was killing me. It was dark and cold and I really needed to pee. I did an ammo check for the fifteenth time but Thomas put his hand on my shoulder and said, “It’s a full mag. It says so on your overlay. Stop it or you will jam something.”
I don’t trust the overlay with matters of life and death. I can’t even convince my coffee-maker to get it right, let alone the augmented reality ammo reading beamed in my eye.
“Why did we need to come all out here if the meet is online?” I asked.
He looked at me with the same look all IT guys have when they are about to reply to a stupid user question and said, “The proxy here is secure. Any other logon point in the city could be tracked.”
I turned around and looked at the kid. Hunched in the corner, a laptop in one hand and the ot
