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  2. ALSO BY TOM CLANCY
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  83. What’s next onyour reading list?
  1. Download the unmarked SNATCHWARE file onto your laptop.
  2. Install the target USB into your laptop.
  3. The SNATCHWARE will automatically find and capture the encryption code on the target USB. You don’t have to do anything. It will create a file called BigDaddyG.
  4. Remove the target USB and install your personal USB.
  5. Transfer the BigDaddyG file to your personal USB.
  6. Install your personal USB into your target computer.
  7. Enter the target two-factor authentication password when prompted.
  8. You’re in.
  9. Buy two steak dinners for Gavin Biery and one special lady friend at Mastro’s.

Paul shook his head. “BigDaddyG?” Give me a break. Mastro’s would set him back a few bucks, but the price was well worth it.

He opened up the unmarked snatchware file. Paul was no coder, for sure, but he could read it well enough. It was tight, elegant, and powerful. The proof of the pudding would be in the eating of it, he told himself, or at least the downloading and execution of it.

He downloaded it without a problem. Now his computer was ready to capture the encryption software on the Dalfan USB tomorrow. Then we’ll see how smart your smart-ass really is, Paul thought.

Once he captured the encryption program located on the Dalfan USB—which couldn’t leave the Dalfan HQ premises—he would transfer it to the USB drive Rhodes gave him, and then all he would have to do is load it into a Dalfan computer, type in his personal passcode, and let it work its magic.

Easy as pie, so long as everything worked exactly as planned and he wasn’t caught red-handed in an act of international and corporate espionage.

The thought elevated his blood pressure. He put on his slippers and limped downstairs for another two fingers of whiskey to quiet his nerves.

39

The next morning Jack and Paul arrived at the security desk on the first floor and were handed a note asking them to head straight for Yong’s office.

Yong was seated behind his computer when Jack knocked on the door frame. Yong motioned them toward the two open chairs in front of his desk.

“You wanted to see us?” Jack asked.

“I heard about last night. Quite disconcerting.”

“For us or for you?”

“Both, of course.”

“Yes, of course.”

Yong shook his head. “Your bad manners haven’t improved, have they? But that brings me precisely to my point. I have found your work and your presence both disruptive and ineffective to my company.”

“I’m sorry you feel that way.”

“I don’t ‘feel’ that way. This is not a matter of feelings. It’s business. And I’m simply stating a fact.”

“The fact is you really don’t want us here, do you?”

“Have I shown you any discourtesy?”

“That’s not answering my question.”

“My father wishes you to be here, so I wish you to be here.”