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CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: THE HACKER'S GAMBIT

Author: Frank Cannon
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-19 03:52:39

Mouse worked through the night.

I stayed in the office with him. Watching. Learning. Praying.

"This is harder than I thought," he said around three AM. "FBI security is no joke. Multiple firewalls. Encryption. Monitoring systems. If I trip any alarms, they will know immediately."

"Can you do it or not?"

"I can do it. Question is whether I can do it without getting caught." Mouse typed furiously. "And whether destroying the drive will actually help. They might have already copied it. Made backups. Standard procedure."

"So we destroy those too."

"Easier said than done. Those will be on isolated systems. Air-gapped. No internet connection. Physically impossible to hack remotely."

"Then we go in person. Break into FBI headquarters. Destroy the backups manually."

Mouse stopped typing. Stared at me. "Did you just suggestwe break into a federal building? Are you actually insane?"

"Probably. But do you have a better idea?"

"Yes. We run. We disappear. We start over somewhere the FBI cannot fin
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