"No Honor Among Thieves," by Rob Hart, in Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic, edited by Nick Kolakowski and Steve Weddle, PolisBooks, 2020.
The proceeds for this book go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a very worthy cause.
This is the third appearance in this column by Rob Hart.
Roger is a banker. He is working from home due to Covid but he needs to get some files he can't access electronically. Why aren't they available digitally? Because they contain data you don't dare expose to hackers, stuff that could get people sent to jail.
It turns out other people want those files too. People who are more determined than he is...
A nice bad guy versus worse guy story.
By the way, Ann Davila Cardinal has a very nice ghost story in this book, but I don't review ghost stories.