Chapter 1: Sue

Robert---I am a genius. My I.Q. is 160. I am up there with Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and Paul Allen. Paul Allen? He is Bill Gates partner in Microsoft. I graduated college at 19 had a master’s at 21 and a Ph.D. at 23. All in computer science. Every big tech company on the West coast wanted me to come to work for them and offered big money. I had other ideas. I went to work for myself. Literally in my garage. I advertised my services on the web. The dark web to be exact. You would be surprised how many people need somebody like me. Being very smart and with few scruples goes a long way on the dark web.

Now don’t get me wrong. Child porn, human trafficking, scamming people out of their retirement accounts that’s not me. What then you ask?

Well take this one case. A man, let’s call him Señor Gomez, not his real name. He had a son who made a mistake and crossed into the United States to party with his girlfriend. The feds knew him and picked him up. He was charged with drug smuggling, his family’s business. He was going to jail for the next 50 years, no deals. Then his father asked if I could help. Remember the old television series “Have Gun Will Travel?” That’s me with a computer, no gun needed these days.

The U.S. Attorney who was in charge of his case was a real hard ass. He had big ambitions. He thought his job was going to help him get elected to the Senate in two years. He was a bigtime Christian, law and order, family man. Pure as the driven snow. Right? No, WRONG! I did some in depth investigating. This father of three with a wife who worked at the biggest Evangelical church in town has a secret. And I found it.

In an e-mail account not in his name but on his computer, there it was. The guy is a closet homosexual. He has a boyfriend, one of the young attorneys who works for him and was scheduled to be his aide in the up-coming election campaign. I hacked his buddies’ email and found pictures, even a video. They seemed to be in love. I sent them to Señor Gomez. His son got offered a deal. Two years in a Federal Prison Camp. He was out and back in Mexico in 18 months. My bank account in the Cayman Islands got one million dollars richer.

So now you know a little about my business. Keep it under your hat. Now about my problem.

All that studying and looking at computer screens had a couple of effects on me. I needed glasses. They did nothing to help my appearance. At 5’ 8” inches tall and 140 lbs. I was not a physical specimen all the girls were after. Being in front of a computer screen most of my life had made me socially inapt, to say the least. Oh, my left hand was well used while I watched lots of porn and read those internet stories but actual contact was limited. Ok, non-existent. The local adult book store did provide a glory hole and I used that until I saw one of the “girls” come out one night to go to the bathroom. Skank is not a good enough word to describe her. She was fat and only had one leg! Never again. Those porn videos with the blonde model sucking and fucking thru a wall was just a fantasy. The reality was something else so I never went back.