Interception. Don Pendleton

I put an interactive layer over the tech. Reduced it to point-and-click shortcuts so you don’t need to be an MIT grad to use it and defend it—same thing I did for the gear Jack and Charlie will be using. But that was a risk, so if you don’t put in the passive code indicator that I’m going to show you, within six seconds of initiating use, it’ll scramble and dump everything. A prompt screen will not appear—just your desktop icons, but the software will be monitoring your keystrokes. Miss the window and the thing shuts down and buttons up.” Tokaido leaned forward, his face intent. “Then the weaponized laser on our Keyhole satellite fires.”

      Bolan looked at him, one eyebrow cocked.

      The young man chuckled, obviously amused at his own super-secret agent joke. “Just so you know, if we did want to, I could hook that up.”

      “I know, you’re a mad scientist of binary process.”