Chapter Three
An hour later, with her flitter parked deep in the Shadow Zone, Jia noticed she was biting a fingernail.
How many times am I going to worry that the flitter will be stolen?
Despite the sophisticated antitheft features, she wasn’t convinced it could survive the attention of a dedicated Zone criminal intent on scoring a fancy new red flitter.
As much she despised antisocial criminals, after working so many cases, she couldn’t deny their ingenuity. The smart ones stuck to nonviolent crimes, so they didn’t end up getting shot by a TR-7 or some ex-soldier in an exoskeleton. Of course, the truly intelligent didn’t take up that kind of crime. They just joined a corporation, found a method to steal from people, and called it legal.
Jia took a deep breath and shook her head. Ther
