He paid close attention to stories about people who had their kidney and the monitoring device surgically removed. This seemed like an extreme step to take considering the person was classified as unaccounted for once his device was removed and stopped transmitting. The only way to survive was to live successfully in the criminal underground. Otherwise, the authorities would arrest the person and have another monitoring device injected.
Government news releases always painted apprehended citizens as members of one anti-government group or another. Date knew this couldn"t be true. Professional criminals had the contacts and knowledge to avoid apprehension once they fell off the government surveillance grid. They didn"t necessarily belong to an anti-government element. It was easy to conclu
