Simtec, the world's largest computer company, is under siege. Behind the attack is a brilliant criminal hacker who is demanding a chunk of Simtec's $20 billion a year revenues. Caught in an escalating spiral of threats and destruction, top troubleshooter Barry Shepard heads the company's courageous counter-assault, but he may pay the highest price of all. Online promo.
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In the first few pages of this compelling and shapely first thriller by computer consultant Duane Franklet, several degrees of urban stress explode into murder and suicide on a freeway in Oklahoma City. It's only later that we realize why: a Houston-based computer manufacturer named Simtec, with a reputation for total reliability, has suddenly started shipping bad equipment, screwing up the work and lives of an increasing number of people and threatening the company's future. At the heart of the chaos is a scheme by vengeful, frightened, and greedy computer experts, and it falls largely on Simtec's Barry Shepherd to find out who and why. Anyone who uses a computer at work will find something here to be frightened about.
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In Franklet's first novel, a large computer company named Simtec Corporation is infiltrated by a malevolent hacker. Minor ordering problems mushroom overnight into a major crisis situation, and easily treated viruses turn into plagues that threaten the future of the company. The situation quickly escalates when Barry Shepard, the company troubleshooter, receives a ransom note. Simtec must deliver $1 million to the mysterious "Hektor" (as in Troy) or the computer network will be destroyed, all will be lost, and Barry's family may be a casualty as well. This novel of technological catastrophe pays a lot of lip service to Michael Crichton, who may be responsible for the shocking number of wannabes that turn out thrillers like this that employ technospeak as an excuse for poor writing. The characters, from Barry to the easily identified villain, are one-dimensional; the real personalities are the computers. Somewhere, HAL from 2001 must be laughing. Not recommended, but buy sparingly if your computer geeks request.?Lesley C. Keogh, Bethel P.L., Danbury, Ct.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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