The Enigma Always

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Synopsis

Cyber good guys are battling cyber thugs for the ability to re-engineer humans to live forever at any cost. R-Group and the CATS team must use the full range of their skills and techno savvy to find Pekoni and put a stop to him becoming the thousand-year ruler. But two of the top R-Group’s geniuses are MIA making this a tougher fight against the evil Pekoni.
The R-Group is alerted that Su Lin is now targeted to be a kidnapping victim and new evidence suggests she is in collusion with the evil Dr. Pekoni.
Zara has made good her heist of diamonds, but she has stolen from the powerful Chairman Chang and he has his henchmen hunting for her and his property.
Unable to fence the stolen property she takes refuge with an unlikely savior Buzz but must return to work for the Russian Cyber Czar, Dimitry, Buzz doesn’t know Zara is using her alias, Daria.
Lara and Carlos, friends of Petra and Jacob are caught up in the maelstrom of the desperate cyber combat between Dr. Pekoni, his henchmen and the R-Group.
Physical and emotional wounds must be healed before the group can return to their role as the cyber good guys the R-Group has always been. The CATS team lends needed personnel to help stop the evil doctor Pekoni.
Breakfield & Burkey take readers on an accelerated adventure with old and new characters to tell the tale of human DNA changes gone wrong.

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Author Biography

1st place winners TxAuthors; ABR 5 star awards for audio books; InD'Tale Crowned Heart Awards; CIPA Merit Award; Short Story Winners; Dan Poynter multiple winner; Breakfield and Burkey bring their Techno-Thriller series to life. Breakfield is a solution architect, for a high-tech manufacturer, who designs hybrid data/telecom environments. He is a technology geek, who enjoys writing, studying World War II, travel, and cultural exchanges. His love of wine tasting, cooking, and Harley riding has found inroads into the stories. As a child he moved often with his father’s military career, which even now helps his with the various character perspectives he helps bring to life in the series. Burkey Is a business architect who builds solutions for customers on a technology foundation. She has written many technology documents & white papers, but loves writing fiction. As a child she helped to lead kids with exciting new adventures built on make believe characters, a Girl Scout until high school, and contributed to the community as a young member of a Head Start program. Rox enjoys family, learning, listening to people, travel, outdoor activities, sewing, cooking, and thinking about how to diversify the series. Reach out to them at Authors@EnigmaSeries.com

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Author Insight

Life and Death, but with humor

Situations in the stories are created for suspense, intrigue, and the thriller side. In life sometimes the most horrible things can be helped with a bit of humor. We have known people that when faced with awful choices look to avenues that either have them laugh or barf. We find that the humor side also draws our readers further into the story. How about you? Do you try to laugh to stop that nagging fear or simply let it overrun you? Burkey is still learning humor so perhaps this will help. Let us know.

Book Excerpt

The Enigma Always

Jacob gave an impatient sigh and said, “I told you I had to do this for my state of mind. If I get killed, then you can have the last laugh, okay?”

Quip rolled his eyes and responded, “Yes, of course, secret agent Michaels, Jacob Michaels. Just so we are straight on this issue, don’t get killed. Deliver the package that is called for and extract Su Lin. The rest is in place. Get back on the plane and get out of Dodge with the goods. No gunfight this time, Wyatt!”

Jacob was silent for a few moments but then said, “Quip, I’m scared.”

Quip tried to rein in his compassion for Jacob but said, “Hey, everything will be okay! ICABOD has this planned out. Between you and me and our giant brains, or mine at least anyway, you’re going to be fine.”

Jacob quickly interjected, “No, that’s not what I’m scared of. It’s Petra. What if she doesn’t….I mean what if we can’t….Suppose that…”

Quip, half annoyed and half sympathetic, responded, “Oh, come on, reckie-pilot! You mapped out this current operation that has your tail feathers on the line, but you don’t have the kahonies to face Petra to put your lives back together! You obviously have your priorities bass-ackwards!”

Jacob chuckled slightly and said, “Then let me thank you from the heart of my bottom for your heartfelt sentiment.”

Quip relented somewhat as he said, “Okay, I admit it. You are someone I do admire and like having around. That doesn’t mean we are going steady, but I’m not ready to see you leave in a body bag. Is that too much sentiment for you to digest?”

Jacob was quiet for a few minutes, digesting everything that was going on, when Quip asked, “Are you sure all the code is in place on STINKIE to receive the remaining programs on Su Lin’s laptop? This has to work flawlessly to give Pekoni the HAIRCUT we are trying to deliver to his program.”

Jacob struggled with the temptation to ask what HAIRCUT stood for, but before he could overcome his internal argument, Quip boldly stated, “Holistic Algorithms with Intelligent Reconnaissance Calculated to Undermine his Triumph or HAIRCUT. I figured you secretly wanted to ask but were afraid to.”

Jacob rocked back into his seat with dismay at being trapped at 28,000 feet in an aluminum cylinder traveling at 350 knots an hour and forced to have a conversation with Quip. He wondered if he could manage to pull this operation off without Quip but quickly realized that would also mean no ICABOD as well. Seeing no alternative but to stay connected with Quip, he sarcastically replied, “Oh, I get it! It’s a joke! Guffaw! Guffaw! You are going to have to wait until I catch my breath and get up from the floor from laughing so hard.”

Almost immediately, Jacob added, “Okay, done. Now in answer to your question, yes, the foundational code is all in place. With what I am about to deliver to the bad doctor, the two programmed entities should be able to link up, at which point the abductor becomes the hostage. Has ICABOD archived everything off the two targets? There won’t be a whole lot left after I press the detonator, so I hope all is tucked away.”

Quip remarked, “Are you kidding me? We couldn’t take another petabyte of information if we had to! This guy’s idea of Big Data is everyone else’s idea of the history of the universe! I am going to have to rent some storage from Tuck just to sort through this mountain of data.”

Jacob sat and reflected on all the recent events and then soberly asked, “Quip, if anything happens to me, you will explain to everyone, right? I mean, let them know that we had this fully engineered and that ...”

Quip cut him off quickly. “Oh, knock it off, can’t you? Nothing is going to happen to you because we are the good guys, got it? As they say in Texas, this ain’t our first time at the rodeo, riding the wild bull! We have all the formidable resources of the R-Group vectored at the target who thinks we don’t know who he is! This has been carefully choreographed by ICABOD with input from us. Right now, just stay the course and play the bag man role until the trap is sprung. The only thing we didn’t plan for was providing an extra pair of underwear for you in the event that you decide to take a bio-health break in your britches at the peak of the action! Are we good?”

Jacob chuckled a little then agreed, “We are good. I just need to get there and give him the CASH.”

Quip puzzled a moment and then asked, “Cash? There is no cash in this transaction, and none was arranged for delivery. So unless you stopped by the ATM to withdraw several hundred grand of U.S. currency, you’re going in empty handed.”

Jacob now grinned as he responded, “CASH or Computer Application Shot at Hostile. I figured you secretly wanted to know, so I told you.”

Quip, somewhat indignant, retorted, “Hey, it’s only funny when I do that, so stop it!”