"Martha Soukup - Things Not Seen" - читать интересную книгу автора (Soukup Martha)

"Two days until what?"

"I've spoken to your department," Drobisch said. "Your supervisor agrees they're overextended in salary
base. He may not be able to keep you on."

"Wait a minute."

"I've told him, of course, that since you've been on loan to the security department, we'd like to help. We
might be able to squeeze out some money to move into their budget. Out of gratitude. If we were
grateful."

This was nearly a subtle move. She should be impressed. "Come on. We're not talking about a payroll
program. There are reams of code in this robot. You can't expect one programmer to find a bug in a
week!"

"There are a lot of programmers. Biolnnovations can't be expected to employ them all." Drobisch looked
smug. He turned on his heel and left.

"Damn it!"

He was setting her up to be the fall guy. Not his fault the security robot didn't work: the company
employed idiot programmers who couldn't work the thing. No matter she'd hardly seen the robot before
the murder. She suspected Drobisch was in a position to alter her employment records.

He was right about one thing. Southern California, which ten years ago had looked like a bottomless pool
of employment for good programmers, was finally saturated with them. And even when you lived with
your sister, rents were outrageous. It took both of them to afford a two-bedroom place. The cost of
water alone could break her, if she went long without a job.

She might even have to move to New Jersey.

"Damn it."



"We're not going to talk about me finding a new roommate," George said firmly. "We're going to solve
this mystery."

Ginnie was lying on the sofa, her arms wrapped around a cushion, thinking. "If I have to move out, Mom
will want you to move back with her."

"Not a chance. I love Mom and all, but give me a break. It's nice not to have talked to her for a week,
for a change."
"You haven't told her? Good. She'd just worry. Did you find out anything about Yonamura?"

"No." George bit her lip. "I'm afraid I sort of wasted today. I wish I'd known Drobisch was going to lean
on you."

"Well, you didn't know."