by Theo Cage
"We’ll need the computers he had in this room before you cleaned it. All of them. There may be something there that gives us a clue as to what he was up to. You going to let me look at those other files? The one you captured?"
"Of course."
I scanned the room one more time. "I don't know about this virus. But I do know he wasn't killed by a computer bug."
"He died at precisely the time we had a record of this virus violating his computer."
"Coincidence," I said.
"How can you be so sure?"
"Frank was in a hurry to die. There's no sign of a struggle. Pretty hard to have another person slice your abdominal wall open and not get their foot prints in the offal."
"Wha . . . " She looked up, shock blasting the color out of her cheeks.
"I've seen it before. It's not pretty, but it works, Frank committed Hari Kari."
"My God!"
"And he did it with the sharpest thing he could find in a hurry - which means this wasn't very well thought out."
"With what?" she asked.
I put my noteback back in my inside coat pocket. This was a day for firsts. "A screwdriver," I said.
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A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
After writing over a million words as a writer, a friend pointed out one day that most of my work was "about getting even". This surprised me at first - which only proves I’m not as swift as I thought I was.
I've always had a simple rule: Write the books I want to read. About fascinating people just trying to survive - facing lousy odds, sometimes insurmountable barriers. And yes, that sometimes means getting even.
You'll notice I rarely have one hero in my novels, which breaks the rules of conventional authorship. But I can't help it. People everywhere are heroes, have been heroes, and want to be heroes - if given half a chance. I feel compelled to tell their stories.
I started out life, like a lot of kids, getting picked on. I discovered the world is full of bullies. So I complained to my parents, and they said "Stand up for yourself. But also don't forget the rights of others."
Books got me through those teenage years, and I'm very thankful. I owe a debt of gratitude to writers like Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, J.D. Salinger, Elmore Leonard and Robert Heinlein.
Teach your kids to be brave, to believe in themselves, to believe in a just world. I know life is not fair - but that's no reason not to stand up to bullies and cheaters and manipulators. Sure, you might get a nosebleed once in a while. But it will be worth it.
I've been a Creative Director for an advertising agency, a TV Producer, a computer programmer, entrepreneur, painter and restaurant owner. And raised two awesome daughters. The only thing I've learned from all of these careers? Being a parent is the best job on the planet.
Theo Cage is the pen name of Russell Smith, a Canadian author and artist.