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L. Ashley Straker
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Connected Infection
“There had never been a Class A1 event; it had always been a purely theoretical designation. Until now.” >>>
Tags:
action
collapse
paranoia
technology
thriller
Work:
Connected Infection
“Well, whatever happened here today...' he said, turning back to Popescu and donning his own sunglasses so he could discreetly cast his gaze over her figure,'...it was only the beginning.” >>>
Tags:
action
agents
beginning
fighting
partners
sunglasses
take-over
thriller
war
Work:
Infected Connection
“Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.” >>>
Tags:
bosses
employees
horror
humour
people-skills
technology
thriller
work
Work:
Connected Infection
“Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.” >>>
Tags:
action
cell-phones
computers
hacked
mobile-phones
paranoia
technology
thriller
Work:
Connected Infection
“Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.” >>>
Tags:
alien
cell-phone
creatures
horror
mobile-phone
technology
thriller
Work:
Infected Connection
“Max?' he asked.
'Yeah?'
'...What are you doing?'
'Shooting people.” >>>
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action
fighting
horror
humour
shooting
soldier
thriller
Work:
Infected Connection
“Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon.” >>>
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action
army
guns
horror
humour
shooting
thriller
Work:
Connected Infection
“Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?” >>>
Tags:
action
agents
blame
danger
shooting
thriller
Work:
Infected Connection
“...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.
When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.” >>>
Tags:
arachnid
cell-phones
horror
mobile-phones
spiders
technology
thriller
Work:
Connected Infection
“Raven briefly pondered the phrase, "staring down the barrel of a gun". It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After all, it was too dark to see any features down a barrel, only a black circle at the end of it.” >>>
Tags:
action
agent
gun
stand-off
staring
thriller
Work:
Connected Infection
“Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her.” >>>
Tags:
action
agency
equal
games
partnership
thriller
Work:
Infected Connection
“Simon stopped listening. He realised he'd had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in people he cared about. Enough of not being cared about back. Enough of uncertainty and lies and civilisation, collapsing or not. Enough of is part in it, his place, his role; the character of Simon Parfitt and all the baggage it entailed.” >>>
Tags:
action
baggage
bugs
civilisation
end-of-the-world
fed-up
horror
soldiers
spiders
technology
thriller
Work:
Connected Infection
“Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'
The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.” >>>
Tags:
action
agents
humour
sarcasm
seething
thriller
Work:
Infected Connection
“He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...” >>>
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action
baked-bean
fear
flying
humour
thriller