Chapter Sixty-Six
Later that afternoon, one of the new phones Danny had picked up the night before chimed with a text message.
During the night, Tasha had logged into her secure laptop and connected to a Bulgarian site. She posted a blog entry about weather conditions and the impact on geese. In the title, she included the number 7. This number would tell the reader how to decode the phone number she included in her story. The phone number was broken up and listed in three chunks, following the rules for code 7. She took the phone's area code and subtracted one number from each of the digits. 874 became 763. Then she took the prefix 378 and reversed the numbers to 873. The following four numbers were swapped around. 1287 became 8712.
If the code had been anything other than 7, the manip
