Perfect Dark: Initial Vector - Softcover

Rucka, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765315718 ISBN 13: 9780765315717

Verlag: TOR, 2005

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The year is 2020: Corporations control everything. In the name of domination, these sprawling organizations have recruited their own military forces to fight clandestine battles against one another---a war fought in the boardrooms and won in the shadows, with the public none the wiser.
Ex--bounty hunter Joanna Dark has unwillingly seen the front lines of this war. Her run-in with dataDyne, the world's most powerful hypercorporation, has left her with a wound that only vengeance can heal. Daniel Carrington, the charismatic founder of the Carrington Institute, has been locked in an ongoing war with dataDyne for years and sees Joanna's deadly skills as the key to victory over their mutual enemy. But Joanna is young and lost, unable to accept her abilities as virtues or fully trust Carrington's intentions.
But when an explosive secret is unearthed---one that could finally bring down the threat of dataDyne once and for all---Joanna finds herself thrust back into the fight, one that brings her face to face with her past . . . and the forces shaping her future.

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Greg Rucka is an acclaimed thriller novelist and commonly considered to be one of the "Big Three" writers at DC Comics.

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Perfect Dark: Initial Vector

By Greg Rucka

Tom Doherty Associates

Copyright © 2005 Microsoft Corporation
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-7653-1571-7

Contents

Title Page, 
Copyright Notice, 
PROLOGUE - Stony Mountain Medium Security Institution — Manitoba, Canada February 8th, 2016, 
CHAPTER 1 - pharmaDyne Corporate Headquarters — Cormox Street, Vancouver; British Columbia September 4th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 2 - Carrington Institute — London, England September 13th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 3 - Pacific Centre-Vancouver; British Columbia September 26th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 4 - Luxe LiFe Resort — Kauai, Hawaii September 26th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 5 - Carrington Institute — London, England September 27th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 6 - Carrington Institute — London, England September 27th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 7 - dataDyne low-orbit executive transport, DragonFly II — 46,000 Feet, descending September 27th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 8 - pharmaDyne Corporate Headquarters — Cormox Street, Vancouver, British Columbia September 28th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 9 - pharmaDyne Corporate Headquarters — Cormox Streat, Vancouver, British Columbia September 28th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 10 - pharmaDyne corporate Headquarters — Cormox Street, Vancouver British Columbia September 28th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 11 - pharmaDyne Corporate Headquarters — Cormox Street, Vancouver, British Columbia September 28th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 12 - Hotel Regina-Apartment 4-2, Place des Pyramides, Paris, France September 28th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 13 - Carrington Institute — Computer Lab III, London, England September 30th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 14 - Ginza Station — Tokyo, Japan October 2nd, 2020, 
CHAPTER 15 - InterContinental Le Grand Hotal Paris — Room 4822-2, Rue Scribe, Paris, France October 3rd, 2020, 
CHAPTER 16 - Club Lisboa — 48 Rua Praria Antonio, Macau, People's Republic of China October 6th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 17 - Club Lisboa — 48 Rua Praia Antonio, Macau, People's Republic of China October 6th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 18 - DataFlow Corporate Headquarters — Office of Chief Executive Officeer and Director Cassandra DeVries — #7 Rue de la Baume, Paris, France October 7th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 19 - Carrington Institute — Grounds — London, England October 7th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 20 - Gustav Weiss, Solicitor — 882 Minervasbrasse, Zurich, Switzarland October 8th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 21 - Carrington Institute — Training Range — London, England October 9th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 22 - Residence of Paul Sexton — #3 Fairlake Lane, Grosse Pointe, Michigan October 10th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 23 - The Money Pit — 337 West 78th Street, New York City, New York October 10th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 24 - The Money Pit — 337 West 78th Street, New York City, New York October 10th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 25 - DataFlow Corporate Headquarters-Office of Chief Executive Officer and Director Cassandra Devries — #7 Rue de la Baume, Paris, France October 11 th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 26 - Carrington Institute VTOL Chameleon Class Dropship #003 — 4,750 Feet, level Flight-South Pacific, Solomon Islands Group October 13th/ 14th International Date Line), 2020, 
CHAPTER 27 - Core-Mantis OmniGlobal-Solomon Islands Health and Healing Center — Hovoro Sacurad Facility — 17 km WSW Hovoro October 14th/15th (International Date Line), 2020, 
CHAPTER 28 - Core-Mantis OmniGlobal-Solomon Islands Health and Healing Canbar-Hovoro Secured Facility-Building Seven (Life Storage Wing) — 17 km WSW Hovoro October 14th/15th (International Date Line), 2020, 
CHAPTER 29 - DataFlow Corporate Headquarters — Communications & Support Center — #7 Rue de la Baume, Paris, France October 14th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 30 - Carrington Institute "Cooler" Facility — 8 km N of St. Harmon — Wye Valley, Wales October 16th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 31 - Carrington Institute "Cooler" Facility — 8 km N of St. Harmon — Wye Valley, Wales October 16th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 32 - Carrington Institute "Cooler" Facility — 8 km N of St. Harmon — Wya Valley, Wales October 16th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 33 - Carrington Institute "Cooler" Facility — 8 km N of St. Harmon — Wye Valley, Wales October 16th, 2020, 
CHAPTER 34 - Carrington Institute — Rooms of Joanna Dark — London, England October 19th, 2020, 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 
Copyright Page, 

CHAPTER 1

pharmaDyne Corporate Headquarters — Cormox Street, Vancouver; British Columbia September 4th, 2020

The primary goal was always to preserve his cover, to keep himself safe in the enemy's camp, and for that reason Benjamin Able was ordered to make contact with the Institute solely at his discretion, and never, ever directly after leaving work. It was a directive straight from Carrington himself: Institute assets within dataDyne or any of its subsidiaries were to be preserved at all costs.

Ben knew the edict, and it gave him no small amount of comfort. He knew what he did was dangerous, he knew that, potentially, it could cost him his life. He knew, as well, that it would have been so much easier to simply buy the package, to believe the lie, exactly as it seemed the way the rest of the world had. To submit to the benevolent care of the hypercorporations, to Core-Mantis and Beck-Yama and Zentek.

To submit to the will of dataDyne, whose slogan, ever-present beneath the double-D diamond logo, was the closest thing to truth the corporation ever offered the world: Your life, our hands. For the longest time, Benjamin Able had believed he was the only person who understood the irony in that, and the implicit threat.

Until the man from the Carrington Institute had tracked him down over five years earlier, knocking on the door of his dorm room at the University of British Columbia in the middle of a bitterly cold winter's night. Ben was majoring in political science, burning midnight oil to complete a term paper. A certain brunette in his Lit class had finally agreed, after weeks of persistence on Ben's part, to go out for pizza and a movie, but he was far enough behind in his work that he worried he'd have to cancel. When he'd answered the door, he'd expected to have friends from down the hall and the offer of a diner run, and he was already readying his excuses for staying behind.

What he got instead was a man he had never seen before, and an offer of an entirely different sort.

"I'm Jonathan," the man had said. "I want to talk to you about the blog."

Ben tried to close the door then, all of his worst fears flooding into him at once. Until that moment, he'd allowed himself to believe that what he'd written, what he'd posted, was beneath the notice of the hypercorps. In the seas of propaganda and controlled media, the islands of truth were few and far between. Ben had considered his own island to be minuscule, certainly nothing like the other sites that had inspired him, sites with names like CorpTruth and CorruptionNet. Those were the sites that had awoken him, where he'd first read about the dataDyne takeovers of Zimbabwe and Brazil, the Core-Mantis purchase of the Solomon Islands. Where he'd seen the photos of troops — honest-to-God troops — wearing corporate uniforms and fighting side by side with UN peacekeepers, or, worse, directing their activities.

Where he'd read the first-person accounts of the atrocities, and the cover-ups, and the purges, and the labor camps. All the things the media spun or obfuscated or...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TOR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0765315718
• ISBN 13: 9780765315717
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354
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