Frenemies - E-book - ePub

On Earth in what used to be India a triple stack train transporting 20, 000, 000 gallons of styrene explodes in a massive fireball destroying a plastasteel factory and a town of 15, 000, killing everyone. UAP Space Marshal Division Three Captain Heather Robinson and her team are assigned to find out if it was an accident or an act of terrorism. Heather and two other Division Three teams under her command look into the incident and question the railroad, the plastasteel manufacturer and the company that makes the styrene.
They are afraid of lawsuits and refuse to cooperate so Heather sends detective to the Earth office and home office on different plants, planning to serve six warrants on three different planets plus Earth at the exact same minute. Space Marshal Sofie Stoyanov is finishing her classes for her Ph D in computers with an emphasis on the dark web and hacking from Benaven University in Pittsburgh. She discovered that it was not an accident, the train engine was hacked into and that triggered the explosion.
She also discovers that the hacker, Richard Ryan, is her former lover from her freshman year at Benaven. Now they must get the evidence on Ryan for the murder of 15, 000, only Sofie knows that Ryan isn't stupid and will have powerful degaussers to wipe his hard drives clean at the first sign of his pending arrest thereby eliminating all evidence of his involvement in the crime. It is up to Sofie, the best computer student in the history of Benaven to prevent that from happening and getting the evidence on Ryan.
However, what neither Sofie, Heather or anyone else realizes is Ryan is only a pawn in this crime. The mastermind's plan is beyond the imagination of everyone involved and only Heather's ability to see outside the box and Sofie's computer skills can figure out the real crime and bring the mastermind to justice.