Bobby’s files need maintenance. If they’re not maintained, they’ll erode, as passwords and protocols are changed, as trapdoors are found and closed, as databases are discontinued or transferred.
I don’t know if I should bother. Maybe I should just put the laptop in the garbage; or better yet, toss it in the river. But there’s so much here. There’s knowledge, there’s money, there’s power. There’s revenge. With those things, you can have almost anything else, too.
What do I want? I always wanted to be a painter, and to do my work, and to be left alone. But with these files, you could change history.
What do I want?
I sit in the glow of the computer screen, and think, Time to find out.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
John Sandford conceived and wrote The Hanged Man’s Song, but with serious help this time. The help came from Roswell Camp of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Emily Curtis of Los Angeles, California, who together provided geographical research assistance, filled me in on some technical aspects of computers and online life (Emily informed me that “online” is now officially one word, rather than “on line” or “on-line”), kept me straight on the logic of the story, provided editing and production services, and also provided the occasional adjective or noun where needed. In keeping with Strunk and White, most adverbs were eliminated.
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