Metafire

But, before the agents had even clicked on the first terminal, George, from his position in space, had deleted Metafire's "Firestone" directories and had used his 'superuser' authority to keep the Metafire Archiver from attempting to reconstruct them. The secrets of Metafire were safe.

Outside of the offices, the agents could count the four employees of Metafire. They interviewed them. Dick O'Leary was the President. The receptionist's name was Helen Burnstein. Then there was a system's guy named Steven Cernovich, and purchasing person, Vanessa Haines, who appeared quite bright and capable. Dick explained this was the entire corporation.

After the interview, one agent said to Dr. O'Leary, "Will you go with us to the Sante Fe FBI office?"

"Am I under arrest?"

"No. No sir. They want to ask more questions."

"May I ask, who?"

"I don't really know, sir."

"Well, all right." Dr. O'Leary was taken to one of the two FBI vehicles now parked directly in front of his office and driven for about five minutes to the Old Town section of Sante Fe where the office of the FBI was located.