November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 32m
English
Tick, Tick, Tick ...
The Scenario: You’ve worked late into the night as a computer engineer in the high-rise headquarters of an international bank, and you’re finally heading with your briefcase to your car in the subterranean parking garage. Your car is the only one left on this dimly lit level, parked along a cement wall right near the elevator. But, as you pull out your keys and are about to hit the unlock button, you hear a loud beep behind you.
Startled, you turn to see an object against the wall just a few feet away with a pulsing red light on it — and in the poor light, you can immediately make out an illuminated timer which is now ticking off the seconds from a 3-minute window!
There is a jumble of multicolored ...