Johannsen, his boss Oscar and the rest of his team stood frozen in disbelief. The section of the wall had slid open revealing a very tough and determined SWAT team consisting of six heavily armed police. The senior policeman spoke crisply to the gangsters. “Those of you with guns, drop them and all of you […]
Sally sat in the New Mexico State University library in Las Cruces and did a final read through of an email before sending it to a corporation called “Vast and Fast Property Funding.” She, Andy and Jauncey had arrived in Las Cruces two days previously after a brutally long flight from South Africa. They had […]
The team had a superb dinner at the nearby Lord Milner Hotel. They even had a fine selection of the best South African wines. Jauncey, who knew something about wine, toasted the couple with a 1986 Alto Rouge Cabernet Sauvignon. Andy took a sip of the ruby red liquid and nodded appreciatively. “We may be […]
Johannsen was beside himself with fury. Not only had he lost more good men but they were no nearer to eliminating Brett and Sandy or whatever they were called now. He was also confused. Where had the other armed men come from? What little data he had gleaned was supplied by the wheelman waiting in […]
After having visited twelve cafés and restaurants, Johannsen’s men struck it lucky on the thirteenth. Although Americans had visited the other places, none answered the sparse general description that the searching men had been given. There were old American couples, a husband and wife with four children, a young surfer on his own and so […]
Zoltan considered his options. Professor Arthur Erskine and the girl were either hiding out somewhere in Phoenix, possibly driving to another destination or maybe flying in another plane to their final destination. Of the three, he felt he had the best chance with another plane, providing they hadn’t boarded a regular commercial jet. He had […]
“Damn!” Arthur read the article dismayed. He had been so careful not to reveal what he had been working on to the media. Despite this, Amanda had just brought him a copy of a prestigious business journal. He had read it with growing horror. Somehow a journalist had gotten wind of his development of the […]
The team broke for lunch on the stoep of the gracious old mansion which had been built in the early 1700s – not that old by European standards but, considering the history of white settlers in the Cape had only started in the 1500s, this homestead was one of the earliest of the distinctive Cape […]
After they had completely recovered from the ordeal of their plastic surgery, Andrew thought back on events since they had arrived in Cape Town. Jauncey as usual had been super careful about preserving their new identities. On the young couple’s initial visit to Dr. Eisenstadt’s clinic in the middle of Cape Town, they had emerged […]
Author’s note: Up to this point, “Tech Wars” has been a work of pure fiction, loosely based on the kind of criminal activities that have evolved with the development of the Internet. I will shortly introduce a genuine and far-advanced computing system that will pose major barriers for the criminals. Any information on this system […]