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Thursday July 05, 2007 - 10:04 PM
When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself anew by taking his methodology to a higher level, and aiming at bigger targets.
Desperate, the head of The California State Police Computer Crimes Division frees Wyatt Gillette, imprisoned for hacking, to aid the investigation against the loud protests of the rest of the division. With an obsession emblematic of hackers, Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phate's insidious computer virus back to its source. Then Phate delivers a huge blow, murdering one of the division's own a "wizard" who had pioneered the Internet and the search takes on a zealous intensity.
Gillette and Detective Frank Bishop an old-school homicide cop who's accustomed to forensic sleuthing make an uneasy team. But with a merciless and brilliant killer like Phate in their cross hairs, and his twisted game reaching a fever pitch, they must utilize every ounce of their disparate talents to stop him.
I thought the book was a pretty good read. If you are into computers and network security, it's a decent piece of fiction, and even if you're not into those things so much, it's all right. It's not very complicated to understand the terms because there aren't that many and the suspense is okay. Have a nice read.
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