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Daily Distraction: DARK FIBER – a serial thriller, episode 29

Posted on August 18, 2014

Before he ventured on the net, Matt scanned and filed the fifty plus emails that had landed his inbox during his ride home. Most messages dealt with Dallas Bard and about Giddyap’s brightening future, ranging from covert inquiries to undisguised prying. He’d deal with them later. First he had to color in the life of his avatar. From now on Jonathan Groen was the illustrious Dallas Bard. Pasting in pictures and uploading documents, forging chats and email exchanges, he thought back to the day Victoria suggested to recruit a total stranger for the job. He’d been skeptic, had preferred an actor, someone he could pay and ditch as soon as the job was done. Victoria had laid out the threats of his plan: a contract, a honorarium, endless drivel over expenses, not to mention…

Daily Distraction: DARK FIBER – a serial thriller, episode 28

Posted on July 25, 2014

Matt was with his car in fifteen minutes and in less than thirty he covered the twenty-five miles to his home. Not the cramped apartment he had rented in Palo Alto to keep his boss, his co-workers and business partners away from his personal life, but the Woodside villa, the only place where he could seclude himself from the world. The Vet, top down, did what it was supposed to do: the speed and the wind blew his brain free of the tension that had built up in Amsterdam. If only for a short while. The solid steel fence slid open, triggered by the remote sensor in the car. Matt zoomed into the driveway. Inches before he’d crash into the veranda that circled the house, he hit the brakes.…

Daily Distraction: DARK FIBER – a serial thriller, episode 27

Posted on July 24, 2014

The customs officer responded like he heard Pavlov’s bell ringing. He might have let Matt off the hook with a warning or a stern look, maybe a lecture about courtesy and god knows what, but that option went up in smoke when Matt uttered his curse. Instead, the officer slapped the scratched aluminum table behind him. “Open up,” he barked, pointing at the suitcase. Matt hoisted the suitcase and the duffel on the table. Without waiting for permission the man zipped open the bag and emptied its contents on the table. As submissive as possible, Matt unlocked the suitcase and stepped away from the table in what he hoped would look like a respectful manner. The latexed hands of the customs officer grabbed through Matt’s laundry and when he couldn’t find fault,…

A Title Poll

Posted on November 26, 2010

The end is nearing. I am getting really close to finishing the revision on TURING’S DECEIT, a.k.a. DARK FIBER. The one thing that is still bothering me is the title. So I decided to call in some help. Your help! Do you remember what it’s about? It’s a thriller and it’s about greedy Matt Turing and gullible Jonathan Kelder, it’s about the ultimate compression algorithm and a multi-million dollar deal. It’s about good and evil and about the dark that lives inside all of us… If you need more you can read the tentative blurb or a(pre-revsion!) sample. Help me out and tell me which title would entice you into buying the book!