18. The View from Olympus

Complete story — includes the ending

Galen Barrow, a driver for ridesharing company Zooss, is run over by a city cab. The murder was staged to look like professional rivalry. Barrow was an internet journalist and had begun working for Zooss recently. Registered sex offender Gordon Meadows admits to having killed Barrow; he was blackmailed into it after he broke his parole. Barrow's internet journalism employer, Lydia Guerrero, was having an affair with Barrow and was also being blackmailed by an anonymous texter. Despite her opposition, Barrow insisted on hunting the blackmailer. Zooss CEO Eric Frazier orders technician Brandon Felchek to hand over to the police computer program Olympus, which records user details and tracks all rides. A man named Patrick Kemp worked for Zooss before a mugger killed him a month earlier. Patrick turns out to have been the blackmailer at Zooss. Falchek is eventually arrested: he had cut off Patrick's access to Olympus months before on discovering that he was blackmailing users, not to protect Zooss or its users but to avoid drawing attention to his own crime; Falchek was using Olympus to stalk Felice Armistead and broke into her home where she surprised him and he broke her cheekbone.