"Sean Williams - Metak Fatigue" - читать интересную книгу автора (Williams Sean)

;..)Ust ask."
f officers for the grunt work. That's all." A couple o 'K,", "I'll send them
down." As Roads and Barney climbed the narrow stairs, the
inal and began black man seated himself before a term -tapping into the
system. When they had reached the
ey let free the breath she had been holding. kitchen, Barn While she and Roads
had been busy, the footsquad .,_,,,'had deployed itself throughout the streets
and alleys 't 4,".,A.round the house, scaling the area from what 'little
traffic there was at that time of night. A request to Power hl@," @
Central had not yet been answered, and the night was still T,
p
itch black. Until the lights along Old North Street and its
tributaries returned to life, the scene would remain shrouded with shadows,
like the frieze of an empty tomb.
s down into the cellar- two to Roads sent four officer lp Raoul, two more to
go through the motions of he fingerprinting and photographing. He obviously
didn't t, expect any new evidence to emerge from the procedure,
but they had to try regardless. Barney was already dreading the report she
would have to file later that morning with Margaret Chappel, head of RSD.
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"You know what I think?" his own Roads was leaning up
against the car, deep in thoughts. "That you'll be glad to catch this bastard
and get back on day shift?" "No. That we're in over our heads, and getting
deeper by the second."
Roads looked up at her. "You mean Raoul?" "Yes." "Well, I can understand that.
Unfortunately, if we want Morrow's help -" "But do we?" Barney broke in. "I
think he's hiding something. " "And I agree." "Can we trust him, then?" "What
Keith said about himself was true, Barney. He's a modern version of the old
junkyard men, collecting gadgets for the rainy day that may never come. Hence
his position on the Most-Most Wanted list: the distributors in R&R don't know
what he is, but they know what he's got, and they'd love to get their hands on
it." Roads shrugged. "No-one's managed to get close because he'll fight when
he has to. "
Barney absorbed that in silence, until the question that nagged at her most
finally broke free: "That trick with the hologram ... is Morrow really dead? "
"He sure is." Roads's gaze wandered as he replied. "His mind was transferred
to a neural net just before the War, shortly before his body died of a motor
neurone disease. Now he fits into a crate about half the size of an ordinary
coffin, and weighs twice as much." "Doesn't that make him vulnerable?" "Only
if someone knows where that crate is - and he makes sure no-one does. It could
be on the other side of the city, for all it matters."
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use he can use communication links to transmit
like a computer. All he needs is the right are and he can 'be'wherever he
likes." @-`Jt was this that bothered Barney most of all. "You
a machine, and yet he reckons he's human. like he's. ly he cant have it both
ways?" i,-"Unforturiately, he can." Roads looked sympathetic.
explained how he works, once, but I'm not sure it
9 es a lot of sense." "Try me." "Serious? "Why not' , You said you would
back at the bar."