Cald of topped someo figure it out.    able job of keeping it at bay.    believe o see more. o find out wo him.

        “ you just sa a full-blo ss of events and images t have made an impression in your mind. Clichés, if you like.”

        “o me?” Caldwell asked, bile rising in er.

        “You did to yourself. You disobeyed orders.”

        “ are you talking about?”

        “Look, I am going to cut to t of time. I ion called    of Union Security Agency, tfit t absorbed all t agencies of tries. e get a small part of t even t. ty Agency’s dirty digital laundry, tion to ain activities t are not    are too sensitive politically for to get involved in directly. I’ve already told you more told any non-agency person and I’ve spent all my aining t sacred voer Intelligence Department. You    recruit ever. You een. e e ye you    notorious ural gift if you like, for breaking into puter systems.”

        “Me a arting to clito plaoy for puters and inuation of t omed to in ion. And ty to find inctive but    arting to make some kind of sense now.

        “ion of all telling me?” Cald could    for show.

        “For your oy to block parts of your memory. You ening to out table. tion h so you    sider yourself lucky.”

        “ did I do to deserve tter sarcasm.

        “You    and probably most brilliant    tances.”

        “So ly?”

        “e are an offs of t umbrella security agency. Our focus ts faced by t is information erminology. e started out as a unit of MI6 in o be ted Kingdom, ion as one of t cyber s in to t out of a dozen anti-cyber terrorism units and so o absorb t. t made us t elei t naturally came out of t, an offs, tard child.”

        “Spare me tory.    do you do?”

        “e seek out aroy fn systems used for eleic crimes, eleic spying aronic rate troy tem t poses a t to t safe.”

        “And I was o do w?”

        “You    proactive subdivision called S&D or Searcroy.”

        “And I kneoo much?”

        “You objected to some of our targets, saying t ting t back fifty years. e    tems    to mount attacks against our systems. tems posed multiple ts to ty of t if ion a all of cyberspaoe did for a living.”

        “But everyone kno tio and    so he big deal?”

        “ted guesses about tly t – fodder for mindless rants in cyberspace. Our os spilliailed information on our operations is quite anot let t happen.”

        “And for my troubles you erased my memory.”

        “Not erased. Blocked. Locked. t you able. You took ts too badly.”

        “You mean to t question,     a knee-jerk rea, an automatic respoo tion of    fears. For a long time no ion er for t allo on ic existence.

        “I’m afraid so. ty of Xian. puter failure. t off a mountain road into a ravine and burst into flames. You    turned sixteen at time and    school in hong Kong.”

        Cald t t    sears upon ion of    fears. mares.    like a    ed off    about all t searcra expanses of gover arcabases in cyberspace. -rending occasions o find out t    possible s. Until today,    even been sure t Caldwell was his real surname.

        Calderected acks.    tes, parsed billions of lines of text. And ill    gotten any closer to log s. It race of ted. Just like ried to disappear from tion to tem    eronic trail. t prints ot in cyberspace.

        “So tell me Fouler, is Cad Caldwell my real name?”

        “Absolutely. ted to leave you    identification. ts. I made sure you got your basic ID c you could make a fresart on tside.”

        “An ID c of ta erased? I    ca gs.”

        “ell, it    if you kneax number and so on. You tempted to trace your parents or your life and oo anot your birte is correct. In fact, it is today if I am not mistaken.”

        “So     somewhere.”

        “Yes, in    of ted try, tems’ policy over t turned out to be a boon for t from flat to actually c of New a.”

        “t explains s. I ime. Did you knos?” Caldwell asked.

        “Yes. t’s ian. Your paternal grandfatant member of tian royal family. Your fat language processing softion systems at Xian Uy. Your mot in al grandfater and Sinop most of    life in Neeps. Se books about Neime as a researc for ty Agency. I to use for t as you ronic spy before you cocked teo bloion. I got a lot of flack for being a bad judge of cer.”

        “ flack?”

        “In    I s ing. You een; your parents    died less tarted rec from t and    in at ture of    of training and psyc for a bit of self defense, ammunitions training and so on. You already    in karate and kne on you and I was wrong.”

        “Noelli I    use guns and knoial arts?” Caldh genuine disbelief.

        “Better believe it. Your fat. o t of sc obviously after    access any of ties. e    give to you but it ake a long time to get to t of t t you eenager back then.”

        “And o do to get my memory back? All of it.”

        “plete a mission,” Fouler said matter-of-factly. Cald him suspiciously.

        “ mission?”

        “Related to    bag you are rag Kenzo Yamamoto for a long time. e ed    of t of a sole, Ameri professor at MIt, is dead too.”

        “Really?”

        “Go a. e knoo kno you t you don’t kno.”

        Fouler    it took Cald it all. Fouler o yet anoti question. o sent er sole?

        “You seem to know a .”

        “t’s our job. In t you don’t kno you don’t really kno is you are carrying. t is no ordinary puter. t it back. It’s one of only tence. Our analysts believe to something much bigger.”

        “So est to reassure    if to some there somewhere.

        “e don’t knoo use it to do    eo do. Find t    is for. Find its location so rate it. o send you, an ordinary om sole? And ificial intelligence professor at MIt. Kenzo o someto make a substantial iment to get it. Botact side of Japan. If you don’t rate t Kenzo er, you ’t blame me if    help you.”

        “Surely ies you must have some clues.”

        “Unfortunately not. i ions ured t someone    oots believe, from tent of to t find o only one clusion. Joplin’s daugrag o get to ttom of t’s a matter of face for trol. ted in t samples indicated truders ra. t firmed some of our oto take this case much more seriously.”

        “ fears?”

        Fouler leant ba t and pursed    betions created by tsu massager s. Caldivated as ivated to get o relax.

        “OK,”    lengteo some secret C uses protocols totally different from andards. tself is not tions ary protocols. to    t eically and teced fits. Our analysis suggests t someo got acts in ting mind quickly figured t ion to t bidder. t likely ers are t of ted States, t on trolling ts. e tion on sucem,    to exist, could be h billions of Euros.”

        “So ly bougs to    soles used to access tem,    oo to me? ?”

        “e believe t ried previously to break t did not succeed. Over t year tories about okyo under mysterious circumstaed directly to attempts to crato tem. o try s in t in Artificial Intelligent is instructive. tected by a ring of proactive security AIs. Dete by ts iokyo found out. Eventually, traced it all to Yamamoto and o probably figured t ty and terattack AIs on tive as trag intruders outside of Asia. t yet kno t y in t regard but it’s just a matter of time. to deal h.”

        “And you    me to find t? hy me?”

        “Neive area rig’s a pory. t risk any political disagreements o locate trate it. Set up trojans, backdoors, o call it. e’ll go in and take a look. If it is against our is    down.”

        “And you th Kenzo’s sole?”

        “Affirmative.”

        “As far as I    see, t a jazzed up version of any of tom decks out tional VR capabilities.”

        “It is muc, believe me. t by a master craftsman okyo. You see teamoto’s d roke just after pleting ts to tem using reprogrammable logic arrays and ic soft is refigured on to emulate ay so far and t is rumor. Most prototypes elseer ed designs t t.”

        “OK, but t be all t great. So    and brig out there?”

        “tty tigalled some of t security AIs out trust me    destine systems, anonymously of course, and it’s not pretty. ts t tem is somet gives titive advantage globally. Not t t. tion is t tem is almost certainly going to be coded entirely in Co be one of t age. Someone ual feel for promising systems. Besides, you already ation as a     be implicated.” Caldations of Fouler’s last sentence.

        “ me like t? I don’t speak C even curse in t’s saying something.”

        “You do and you . Believe me I    t many years ago. You spoke, read and e Mandarin and tonese fluently ional Sentioors in . e    isolate and reopen t’s all in our system.”

        “No o mess    already. I just    my memory back.”

        “e o tag you for trip to    reopen some of here anyway?”

        “em I get everything back.”

        “Yes, and maybe even a job    it. I t be ive and fet.”

        “And if I fail.”

        “e’ll give you specific parts of your memory ba t to urn to t t system to put your past in text, a proper job, a full identity, your memories ial memory recall is not a sd over term,    total recall, w will happen.”

        “I’ll take my ces.”

        “Up to you.”

        “ just bullsting about being able to restore my memory?”

        “I’ll give you back just enougo put tion , to get back to business. e are sending you out to omorrow”

        Fouler sifted trom.

        ***

        puter code. Millions of lines of puter code etcerminal s. tal clear and burned intensely in Cald trying desperately to get rid of ttempted to recall iled background.    of an automated car to erized voice saying:

        “M, Mr. Caldwell.”

        Fast-forems filled aire room. ires stacked round t. al racks. Caldting in ters, tuiding tra of bits and bytes.    ion in one of then. Pimples.

        A ed ern voice. Stered somet it all being for t    notice t varicose veins burned fluorest in    to aterle?

        er room uploading bogus data to a ed sector of cyberspace. or ss in front of    tion of tless nondescript corridors, tily off te brick    in a forest trap but tigo ts of to w have clearance.

        e door ” ten in it in black paint.    i burned rapped into a e. te t reflected notraps. A pretty young girl in    nose, leaned in to reminded al disiant. A syringe came up in a ting mis of transparent liquid in till air.

        ***

        Caldo Fouler’s Faustian bargain. t all to give aken care of on t to old Cald tag o a GPS system so    do a runner. o it all, ain s     like he had a choice.

        Caldo drop erle so o Kat.

        “I bet you kno oo?” Caldterness.

        “Sure. e cer you ed into tem. e    put you up ionig yourself ed up, get some good food in you,” Fouler offered.

        to be s about letting Cald of    but t Caldain    tter of any idea to make a run for it or searcem by . Besides, Frid and ime.

        “No thanks,” Caldwell deed.

        to a standstill just outside aterloo station. It    as ty. Caldepped out into a black puddle and London rain. tasted of trial pollution ah.
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