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

King continued. “Eventually, problems from IRL began to creep into our conversations, and the more we were able to fix them between us, the more it happened. That’s how it came to be known to me that Karl’s research was valuable and there were those trying to take it from him. However, this was one problem for which we were having difficulty finding a solution.”


That sounded like more, to Fox. Not just a partnership. King’s words spoke of a friendship, one that King had valued and that Karl had thrown to the wayside. How would Fox feel if Joanne were the traitor? Even then, he hadn’t known anything about Joanne IRL. This was even more than that.


Fox tried to think of a friend IRL that he trusted as much as King had trusted Karl and drew a complete blank. The harder he thought about this, the more Fox wondered, where were all the friends he was supposed to have by this time in his life? Did his mistrust run so deep that he couldn’t think of a friend like that?


Chapter 62