Source IP trace—she’d avoided it before, but now she ran it. The chain ended at a satellite uplink in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Conflict zone. Mineral wealth. And a long history of mercenary armies, child soldiers, and—she realized with a lurch—experimental medical treatments on captive populations.
She closed the laptop and sat in the dark, counting down the hours until the next message arrived. File- Blood.Fresh.Supply.v1.9.10.zip ...
End of part one.
Maya’s hand trembled as she reached for her phone. She called Dr. James Kettering, her former mentor, now chief of transplant immunology at Johns Hopkins. Source IP trace—she’d avoided it before, but now