"A terrorist attack!? This is even bigger than I thought! Who's in charge of the investigation? I'll get my people over there right away!"

"Hold on Tom," said Nancy. "You can't go rushing in there now. If you spook the bad guys they could execute their plan before we have a chance to stop it. Besides, you haven't heard everything yet. Spike tracked the probe and it led him to Lexicon Industries down in San Jose."

"Lexicon? Then this is no terrorist activity. It's industrial! Some programmer with a revved up snooping program looking for industrial intelligence on people's systems?"

"No," said Nancy, "the probe didn't take anything. It didn't even read any data. It just bounced network traffic off the sites. We don't really know why. We were hoping you could give us some background on Lexicon Industries that might help us figure this out."

"Well, I've met John Lexicon a few times, fascinating man, but I don't really know much about his company. In fact, the last time I talked to him he didn't seem to be thinking about it very much either. He had always talked on and on about his products and how much better they are than everybody else's. But when I saw him last month he didn't even want to talk about the business. People get quiet when business is slow though and I know he's lost a couple of big government contracts recently."

"Maybe there's more to it than that," said Spike.

"You mean maybe he's involved in this Internet thing? That's a pretty serious charge."

"I know, I'm going to check him out and see what I find. I'm going to need some help with this though, Tom. Do you know anybody in the security business that can keep something like this quiet while we try to put two and two together?"

"I can give you a name and an address of a guy. I've used him before and liked him a lot. He's freelance, so has no strings attached to the newspaper. I have to tell you though, he's a little obsessive about secrecy and his own resume. I was told that he came out of the intelligence business. Probably CIA. But he won't give you any confirmation one way or the other. He goes by the name of Roger Tango. Obviously an alias, wouldn't you say Mr. Webb?"

"Yes, that does seem likely. What's the address?"



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