This breathtaking novel, set against the backdrop of the software world and the Internet, takes you on a thrill ride from Massachusetts to California.Marty Gladstone and TJ Gatwick are two powerful software entrepreneurs in a race to be first to market with a new operating system. The influential Silicon Valley journalist, Erin Keliher, can make or break either product. But her loyalty shifts as she gets involved with one of the two men.Then everything goes haywire: Erin becomes the reluctant conduit for a brilliant yet warped computer hacker named Doomsday who has created a virus that is virtually unstoppable. The FBI tries to track Doomsday down to no avail. Finally, the Feds urgently appeal to Marty and TJ to put aside their differences and work together to thwart the efforts of this notorious cyberterrorist...before the Doomsday Virus takes down the country's entire financial infrastructure.
Barry Silverstein is a professional freelance writer and branding/marketing consultant. He has over 30 years of experience in branding, advertising, and marketing.
Barry has written the following non-fiction books: Product Launch 123 (123 eGuides), Branding 123 (123 eGuides), The Breakaway Brand (co-author; McGraw-Hill), Business-to-Business Internet Marketing (Maximum Press), Internet Marketing for Information Technology Companies (Maximum Press), Managing People (Collins Best Practices Series), Motivating Employees (Collins Best Practices Series), and Evaluating Performance (Collins Best Practices Series). Barry has also written the following novels: The Doomsday Virus (iUniverse) and Water's Edge (Smashwords).
Barry teaches the online course, "How to Brand Your Company or Product" for KSURF University. He writes extensively for Brandchannel.com, the world's leading online branding forum, as well as for numerous national websites, blogs, and select business clients. He is a volunteer branding/marketing consultant for the Small Business Center associated with a community college.
Barry held a senior management position at Arnold, a top 20 U.S. ad agency, prior to launching an independent career. Before that, he was president/CEO for 20 years at Directech, Inc., a $5 million award-winning New England direct and Internet marketing agency that he founded. He also worked in brand and creative management for Epsilon, a leading database/direct marketing firm, and for Xerox as an advertising copywriter.
Barry resides with his wife and a pack of dogs, all from shelters, in the Asheville, NC area.
His website is http://www.barrysilverstein.com.
