After years of helping people who barely knew how to generate a 2048-bit encryption key, I should’ve been happy to get a client with a real problem. But when it starts with me being knocked unconscious and kidnapped, you understand if I’m grumpy. Still, a missing insane software designer is a magnet to my mental metal: I’m an Information Technology Private Investigator and I love a high-tech problem. My only worry is that unlike my usual cases, this one might just kill me.

I’m not the best information technology private investigator. There are others better than me, others more experienced, others with better stories to tell.

But I haven’t met them yet.