Cyber Genius (37 page)
Authors: Patricia Rice
Tags: #Amateur sleuth, #female protagonist, #murder, #urban, #conspiracy, #comedy, #satire, #family, #hacker, #Dupont Circle, #politics
EG’s lower lip trembled, and Nick sighed in resignation.
Another woman would have felt guilty yelling at a crying kid, but I crossed my
arms to hold in my gut-wrenching dismay and gazed at my half brother for
explanation.
Nick shrugged. “Don’t you ever read the newspapers?”
“Why? They only make me want to walk the street carrying a
sign saying
Repent or the world shall end
tomorrow.
” I hadn’t buried myself in the basement just to avoid family.
There was a whole world out there that I would avoid if I could. That way, I
could live with the fantasy that the rest of the universe contained sane
people, and it was only my piece of it that was nuts.
EG went to my computer, hit a few keys, and called up a news
channel. There, in big bold letters I couldn’t miss, was the headline: SENATOR
TEX HAMMOND A SUSPECT IN AIDE’S MURDER.
Tex was EG’s dad.
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