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R. J. Pineiro (Author)
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February 22, 2003
Computers increase the flow of natural gas to the San Antonio, Texas, distribution center increasing the pressure, triggering multiple leaks which result in massive explosions. The death toll is in the thousands, ten times the number of injured and homeless.

Tom Graham has spent twenty years as America's top counterterrorist operative. But this attack was something neither Graham nor America were prepared for. An attack via computer, and suddenly a new word enters the American mainstream, cyberterror. Enlisting the aid of the FBI's Karen Frost, a special agent who has never played by the rules, and Michael Patrick Ryan, Stanford computer whiz, Graham tracks one of the hackers to an address in Florida. The new government Agency, the Counter Cyberterrorism Team, kicks in the door, only to find the booby-trapped corpse of a computer science professor. The explosion takes out two CCT agents.

Meanwhile, a mysterious terrorist, Kulzak, is on to his next target in America. But the apparently random strikes are just a cover to divert attention from his true mission.

Suddenly, Graham, Frost, and Ryan find themselves at the center of a war for the survival of our nation. A war that will force them to draw on their combined experiences to fight and stop an enemy that is as formidable as he is ruthless, as deadly as he is brilliant-an enemy determined to unleash a wave of destruction on America.

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Prolific technothrillster Pineiro addresses the vulnerability of present cybernetic systems, large and small, to terrorism. Superterrorist Kulzak jiggers the controls to the gas lines in the San Antonio area, spreading death and devastation far and wide. Expert counterterrorist operative Tom Graham, cowboy FBI agent Karen Frost (hubba hubba!), and computer whiz Michael Patrick Ryan form one of those special teams that are always more effective in thrillers than in real life. They and their spear-carrying colleagues take their lumps but eventually prevail. Pineiro has always subordinated characterization to hardware and action, and he has frequently played to his readers' paranoia. That said, remember that readers with voracious appetites for fast action and hardware exist in droves, and that is how they will come for this book. Moreover, after 9/11, is any terrorist act that is physically possible too improbable to be envisioned in a novel? Roland Green
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"An author equally at ease with complex software and superior storytelling."-Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Traitor

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (February 22, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0765303930
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765303936
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,027,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Abuse of Technological Jargon, January 22, 2005
This review is from: Cyberterror (Hardcover)
This book was horrible. Technical jargon was thrown around to make things seem accurate, but was horribly abused. People familiar with TRON will recognize the idea of throwing around viruses as though they were balls.

The writing style was childish and often full of word abuse, as has been noted by other reviewers. The characters are undeveloped and all the good guys think and act exactly the same: buck the establishment investigators who make lots of really good guesses. Deus ex machina to the extreme.

The amount of belief that must be suspended, especially by someone remotely familiar with modern computers, goes far beyond my tolerance for something that is supposed to take place within the decade.

If you want to read some high-tech fiction, read Neal Stephenson. He requires suspension of some belief, but writes much better and has characters with depth.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A Gibson ripoff, July 2, 2006
This review is from: Cyberterror (Paperback)
This book takes what made Neuromancer unique and turns it into cheap suspense. Its technical information is inaccurate, and by trying to stylize "cyberspace," it creates a mess of illusion and reality intertwined around a predictable logical path. For all of its bluster about warning us of the dangers of cyberterror, it gives a simplistic view of the situation. As a suspense novel, it is not terrible, with a reasonably compelling character, but between the plot holes and predictability, it is about as suspenseful as reading The Congressional Record. Read Neuromancer instead.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Action Packed Book!, March 14, 2004
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Melvin Hunt (Cleveland,, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cyberterror (Paperback)
R.J. Pineiro has written another exciting book.I have yet to read a boring book from R.J. Pineiro.In this book you have the ultimate villain in Ares Kulzak. He is being pursued by three
good guys,Tom Graham,Michael Ryan,and Karen Frost.Kulzak begins the book by leveling San Antonio due to a gas leak caused by computer interference by Kulzak.Kulzak is trying to obtain four computer passwords that would give him control over the nuclear launch codes.During the course of this book Kulzak causes wide scale tragedy in Melbourne,Florida,Austin,New Orleans, Los Angeles and finally San Francisco.The three agents combat the efforts of Kulzak all over the country.They battle him in the cyberworld and every place that he attempts to strike.This book
is another winner from R.J. Pineiro.I enjoyed this book and you will too.
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IN MY TWENTY YEARS SWEATING IT OUT AT THE CIA as a field operative I thought I'd seen everything. Read the first page
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cyber agent, frozen construct, spook sense, backdoor password, tactile gloves, military construct, wireless cameras, cyber world, launch codes, lapel microphone, cyber attack, terrorist strikes
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Ares Kulzak, New Orleans, San Antonio, Karen Frost, Secret Service, Gary Hutton, United States, Mike Ryan, Tom Grant, New York, Turing Society, Los Alamos, Paul Stone, White House, Russell Meek, Ken Paxton, Kishna Zablah, Jerry Martinez, Los Angeles, San Francisco, French Quarter, San Salvador, Warehouse District, Charlie Chang, Jason Lamar
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