Fox is a mindnet hacker, one of the best. He and fellow hackers work for a mysterious man known only as King, and they spend their time uncovering dangerous secrets and releasing them to the public.<br><br>Those who dig up trouble are bound to find it, and despite their best precautions, King is captured by an unknown government. While Fox and his team try desperately to find a way to free him, Fox meets another mysterious man who is only known by a number -- Seven. Seven works for the other side, but sometimes, uncovering secrets also raises doubts.<br><br>Fox and company need all the help they can get. Will Seven help them, and at what cost?

All the King's Men

He created one now, and it showed him the face of one of the agents. If they could make him want to see his face a certain way, it stood to reason he could also make himself look differently if he so chose.


The Fox had even changed shape entirely, he recalled. It couldn’t be so difficult.


Agents had black hair in a military-style cut, even and regular features, and brown eyes. He moved aside his goggles and tried to imagine himself with a different face.


He’d seen other faces. He could copy one of them. Fox’s face was easy enough to imagine, even if he did have ridiculous hair.


Seven tried until his head started to ache, but nothing he did, no mind-trick or psychology, could change his features.


They’d trained him too well, and if it took a long time to complete training in the first place, it would likely take time to undo it. The problem was, even thinking of undoing something he’d learned, felt alarming and wrong.


Chapter 16