The Friday 56 for 6/5/20

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it

from 56% of:
Fair Warning

Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

“We actually encrypted a DNA sample with a Trojan-horse virus and sent it in like everybody else does. Once in, the sample was reduced to code and it activated and we were in their mainframe. Complete backdoor access to their data. I’m a second-tier buyer of their DNA. I buy it, isolate the DRD4 carriers we want, and match the serial number that comes on every sample to the flesh-and-blood bitch we then list on the site.”

(I’m a long way from this point, so I’m not sure what it’s about, but it sounds pretty cool.)

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7 Comments

  1. Please tell me there will be a Foundling Friday today…

  2. From Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Tarzan of the Apes”, p. 56:
    CLOTHES therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of MAN over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things.

    • both a cringe-worthy line and a chuckle-worthy line. (can count on Burroughs for both, sadly)

      Thanks, I really liked that one!

  3. Okay, this excerpt has totally turned me off to this book. Taking a DNA sample and putting a computer code into it? That defies everything I’ve ever learned about science. How is that at all possible? It just… NO… sorry!

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