Chapter 14
Vancouver, British Columbia
Jianjun gave himself a virtual pat-on-the-back as he sat in front of his computer and successfully hacked into the FBI’s Next Generation Identification, NGI, the national facial recognition system. It felt good to be hacking again. He enjoyed the challenge, and he was able to concentrate hard enough to block out his wife’s nagging and complaints that he didn’t have a “real” job.
He made good money—far more than he ever had working for Microsoft, especially since some of the archeological finds included riches that the finders were able to legally possess and sell. But since he didn’t have a nine-to-five job, nothing else mattered to her. They lived in a small, plain ranch-style house in a nondescript subdivision near downtown Vancouver. His wife wa
