Wired by Julie Garwood EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Julie Garwood
- Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction, Women’s Crime Fiction, Women’s Romance Fiction
- Publish Date: 4 July 2017
- Size: 2 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
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- Price: Free
A five-minute clip on the evening news turned Allison Trent
into a full-blown criminal. She had wiggled across the line
many times before, but she’d never done anything so bold or
blatant. Within a couple of years she had accumulated more
than eighty million dollars. On paper that would have made
her a titan. In reality she was as poor as a church mouse.
The motivation to commit the first crime came to Allison
quite unexpectedly as she was sitting on an overstuffed sofa in
a coffee shop close to the Boston College campus. She was
working on a class project that was due the next day and was
so completely focused on the computer sitting on her lap that
she was oblivious of the activity around her, not even hearing
the news broadcast coming from the television that was
suspended from the wall opposite her—that is, until the words
“terrible injustice” broke through her concentration and drew
her eyes up to the screen.
The young male reporter seemed
genuinely sympathetic as he read his story from the
teleprompter. The subject was a local nursing home called
Sunset Gardens, one of twenty homes for the elderly located
across the East Coast owned and operated by a corporation out
of Philadelphia. The corporate home offices, he explained,
kept a database with vital information pertaining to every
single one of their clients.
They were vigilant in protecting
privacy, had all the bells and whistles installed to keep
personal data ironclad against bugs and viruses, and had paid a
hefty salary to a tech company whose only job was to monitor
the system. None of that mattered, though. Their system had
been hacked, and the identities of all the residents in all twenty
facilities were stolen with one keystroke. And because First
National was designated as the official bank for all Sunset
Gardens homes and their residents, within minutes its accounts
were wiped out as well.
The reporter went on to point out that a large number of
the residents had no family to help them, and while the money
in First National was FDIC insured, it could take the
authorities a good long while to sort through the facts and
reimburse every account.
What were the residents supposed to do until then? Allison
wondered.
A sense of outrage was growing inside her as she listened
to the catastrophic details of the crime, but the tragedy hit
home when the reporter played a clip of his interview with one
of the elderly residents. Her name was Ella O’Connor. He
knelt beside Ella’s wheelchair and held her veiny hand as he
asked her what the news meant to her.
Ella’s watery eyes stared at the reporter for a moment as
though she was trying to understand the question. “I don’t
know,” she said. And then a look of despair crossed her face.
“I hope they don’t make me leave.”
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