Chapter 14
The first time Kate had met Rikka was while busting her for money-laundering. She’d been using the name Shirō Usaji at the time and working as a very nasty Chinese street g**g’s hidden data geek.
“I am Neo, before he takes the pill.”
When Kate had asked what the hell she was talking about, Rikka had refused to say anything else until Kate had brought a DVD player and a copy of The Matrix to Rikka’s holding cell and they’d watched it together.
The cloistered computer genius. She got that now.
Rikka had worked with the New York and Boston Chinese Tong gangs—even though she was theoretically mostly Japanese—that had exploded into power right before the U.K. gave Hong Kong back to China in ‘97. All that money had to find new ground, fertile capitalist ground, and the two larg
