DARC Ops Box Set
The Complete Series
Jamie Garrett
Wild Owl Press
Contents
Copyright and Disclaimer
Glossary
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Dark Secret
1. Mira
2. Mira
3. Jackson
4. Mira
5. Jackson
6. Mira
7. Mira
8. Mira
9. Jackson
10. Mira
11. Jackson
12. Mira
13. Jackson
14. Mira
15. Jackson
16. Mira
17. Mira
18. Jackson
19. Mira
20. Jackson
21. Mira
22. Jackson
23. Mira
Dark Web
1. Carly
2. Carly
3. Carly
4. Tansy
5. Carly
6. Tansy
7. Carly
8. Tansy
9. Carly
10. Tansy
11. Carly
12. Carly
13. Carly
14. Tansy
15. Carly
16. Tansy
17. Tansy
18. Carly
19. Tansy
20. Carly
21. Tansy
22. Carly
23. Tansy
24. Carly
25. Tansy
26. Carly
Dark Heart
1. Jasper
2. Fiona
3. Jasper
4. Fiona
5. Jasper
6. Fiona
7. Jasper
8. Fiona
9. Jasper
10. Fiona
11. Jasper
12. Fiona
13. Jasper
14. Fiona
15. Jasper
16. Fiona
17. Jasper
18. Fiona
19. Jasper
20. Fiona
21. Jasper
22. Fiona
23. Jasper
24. Fiona
25. Jasper
26. Fiona
27. Jasper
28. Fiona
29. Jasper
30. Fiona
31. Jasper
32. Fiona
33. Fiona
Dark Control
1. Matthias
2. Laurel
3. Matthias
4. Laurel
5. Matthias
6. Laurel
7. Matthias
8. Laurel
9. Matthias
10. Laurel
11. Matthias
12. Laurel
13. Matthias
14. Laurel
15. Matthias
16. Laurel
17. Matthias
18. Matthias
19. Laurel
20. Matthias
21. Laurel
22. Matthias
23. Laurel
24. Matthias
25. Laurel
26. Laurel
27. Matthias
28. Laurel
29. Matthias
30. Laurel
31. Matthias
32. Laurel
33. Matthias
34. Laurel
35. Matthias
36. Laurel
37. Matthias
38. Matthias
39. Laurel
Dark Threat
1. Sam
2. Clara
3. Sam
4. Clara
5. Sam
6. Clara
7. Sam
8. Clara
9. Sam
10. Clara
11. Sam
12. Sam
13. Clara
14. Clara
15. Sam
16. Sam
17. Clara
18. Sam
19. Clara
20. Sam
21. Clara
22. Sam
23. Clara
24. Sam
25. Clara
26. Sam
27. Clara
Dark Lies
1. Macy
2. Tucker
3. Macy
4. Tucker
5. Macy
6. Tucker
7. Macy
8. Macy
9. Macy
10. Tucker
11. Tucker
12. Macy
13. Tucker
14. Tucker
15. Macy
16. Tucker
17. Tucker
18. Macy
19. Macy
20. Tucker
21. Macy
22. Tucker
23. Macy
24. Tucker
25. Macy
26. Tucker
27. Macy
28. Macy
29. Tucker
30. Macy
31. Tucker
32. Macy
33. Macy
34. Macy
35. Macy
36. Tucker
Dark Discovery
1. Annica
2. Cole
3. Cole
4. Annica
5. Annica
6. Cole
7. Cole
8. Annica
9. Annica
10. Cole
11. Annica
12. Cole
13. Cole
14. Annica
15. Cole
16. Annica
17. Cole
18. Annica
19. Annica
20. Annica
21. Cole
22. Annica
23. Cole
24. Annica
25. Cole
26. Cole
27. Annica
28. Cole
29. Annica
30. Cole
31. Annica
Dark Enemy
1. Holly
2. Logan
3. Holly
4. Logan
5. Holly
6. Logan
7. Holly
8. Logan
9. Holly
10. Logan
11. Holly
12. Logan
13. Holly
14. Logan
15. Holly
16. Logan
17. Holly
18. Logan
19. Holly
20. Logan
21. Holly
22. Logan
23. Holly
24. Logan
25. Holly
26. Logan
27. Holly
28. Logan
29. Holly
30. Logan
31. Holly
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright and Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2017 by Jamie Garrett
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law. All requests should be forwarded to jamie@jamiegarrett.com.
Glossary
Hacker: In mai
nstream media, a person who gains access to a computer system in order to access information and/or cause damage. Originally (and gaining in popularity again) it meant someone who was a highly skilled computer expert, and usually involved in a hacker community or subculture.
Air walled/Air gapped: A security measure used to ensure a computer is physically isolated from potentially unsecure networks, such as the public internet or another network (for example, a local network in an office).
White Hat: Internet slang referring to an ethical computer hacker or security expert. They may be hired by other companies to break into their computers and networks to test their security and vulnerabilities to a real attack.
Black Hat: Internet slang referring to a computer hacker or security expert who does not play by the rules. Also called crackers, or dark-side hackers, they are people who attempt to find computer security vulnerabilities and exploit them, usually for personal or financial gain, along with other malicious reasons.
Grey Hat: A computer hacker or security expert who may sometimes skirt the edge of the law or certain ethical standards, but does not have the malicious intent of a black hat.
Honey pot: Traditionally a honey pot is a decoy computer system used for trapping hackers or spammers. Honey pots are setup to purposefully engage and deceive hackers, and identify those responsible for malicious activity. The term has also been used to describe spies or hackers (usually female) who use their looks and skills to break into secure networks or facilities (for example: stealing someone’s keycard or convincing them to tell them their password).
Encryption: The translation of data (including text and images) into a secret code. To read an encrypted file, you need the secret key or file to decrypt it.
NGO: Stands for Non Government Organization. NGOs are non-profit, voluntary citizen’s groups which are organized on a local, national, or international level. Usually task-orientated and formed with a common interest, NGOs engage in a variety of services and functions.
Ping: An electronic query from one computer on a network to another to determine whether there is a connection to it and whether the other computer is working.
R&D: Stands for research and development.
Doxxed: To ‘dox’ someone is to search for and publish private or identifying information about someone online, usually (but not always) with malicious intent. For example publicly sharing anything from an individual’s credit card information to private sex tapes.
MRAP: Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected; a vehicle that is designed specifically to withstand an IED attack and ambushes.
DEFCON: Started in 1992, DEFCON is the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference. Held annually in Las Vegas, attendees include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, researches, students and hackers. The event includes speakers on computer hack and cracking related subjects, and hacking wargames social events and contests.
DarkCoin: DarkCoin (renamed Dash in March 2015) is an open-source currency similar to Bitcoin but completely anonymous. It’s operated by the first decentralized autonomous organization.
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Dark Secret
1
Mira
It was almost too easy back in Germany. She had even had the luxury of being polite about it, adding “entschuldigung” before “ich bin nicht in dich” for her slightly clingy and considerably older nightclub stalker. And off he'd go, the sulking pile of moody Berliner disappearing into the darkness beyond the pulsing lights of the dance floor.
Italian men, being more tenacious, required a little more cruelty. “L'amore non è cieco,” she'd say to even the most ruggedly handsome of shirtless Veronese concrete laborers. By the time Mira had left Italy, she'd become an expert in halting an almost hilarious variety of unwanted advances, the wreckage of male egos stretching from Verona to Calabria.
Even on the dusty back roads of Dak Nong Province, where the Vietnamese delicacy of fertilized duck eggs were served from vendor carts, it was necessary to speak the universal language of bothered women. Even there, to the kids on the dirt bike who kept smiling and whistling, it absolutely had to be said. “Hãy để tôi yên!”
Of course, it helped to have the element of surprise on Mira's side. Her rejections were delivered flawlessly from such a foreign, pretty mouth. They'd land with the effectiveness of a stake through the heart of even the most ardent of seductors. But on returning to the United States, she'd suddenly lost that edge. There was no longer anything surprising about her replies, unless she said something particularly nasty. She'd sometimes like to say something nasty. But that wasn’t her style.
Why did she have to be so goddamned polite and cerebral?
Why couldn’t she, with some confidence and verve, instruct her car mechanic to stop talking to her tits? And why couldn’t she tell the rude French Canadian, when hearing his français and noticing a red plastic poppy on his lapel, to “fuck off, eh?”
She obviously knew the language, having been born into it, so it wasn’t so much a matter of linguistic competency as it was psychology. Attitude. Some mental block or another. It was precisely this deviation from her norm that allowed breathing room—or a breeding ground, rather--for the one-way flirt fest masquerading as her and Chuck's healthy and professional workplace relationship.
He'd come by her cubicle that morning to deliver yet another sweet treat from Landon's Bakeshop, this time a bite-size wedge of tiramisu with a side of “Landon's. The only place where you don't mind me thinking about you.”
She couldn’t afford to be rude to him, that much she knew. But her self-respect could certainly afford a little acknowledgment. Or at least something more than the quiet acceptance of his constant compliments.
“I loved your speech last night,” he'd said, a sudden wave of seriousness washing over his tiramisu-crumbed face. “Very moving. And you looked so poised up there.”
What was it about Chuck that kept her so complacent? What kept her content with being his office prize? Was it hypnotic suggestion? God knows his eyes were creepy enough.
To his credit, he'd say things that any woman with a pulse would enjoy. He said them well, and with a smile. And he wasn't exactly hideous-looking, even beyond office standards. He was also the personal assistant, and great chum, to her boss, Senator Langhorne. And although he was roughly as low as Mira on the office totem pole, his influence with the Senator was real and powerful. Chuck once got an intern fired for something as trivial as a sports team allegiance. Go Redskins, or else, was the message to anyone who, unlike Mira, gave a shit about sports. Still, as much as she tried, she just couldn’t imagine Chuck pitting the Senator against her like that. It seemed that no amount of her extremely soft rejections could push Chuck that far over the edge. It would take something big for such a turnaround, for the unthinkable, for him to stop wanting her pretty face around the office anymore. Maybe a break-up would do it. Or a date not ending in sex. Yet another reason for Mira's constant cool rejections was that she was using them as a buffer against the looming threat of date invitations. She liked her job too much for that.