"Are you kidding? What am I, a miracle worker?" Pelicanos was genuinely wounded. "I’m just an accountant! I can’t repair the damage from a military netwar attack! In fact, I think someone’s been monitoring me, personally. Every file that I’ve accessed in the past two months has been specifically destroyed. I think they’ve even screwed with my own laptop—some kind of black-bag job. I can’t trust my own personal machine anymore. I can’t even trust my off-site records."