The Seventh Level [Paperback]

Dirk Hanson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 2009

A sophisticated technology thriller set in the heady early days of the online world. A hacker has attacked SEEK, the country’s largest computer network, at its highest security level—the seventh level.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A splendid job. Mr. Hanson is a specialist in his field who is also a superior writer with a pronounced streak of poetry, especially when he is hymning praise to the Western wilderness. He not only knows computers; he also understands people and their motives, their drives, their pettiness and their yearnings." --New York Times Book Review

"Hanson sustains the resulting tensions nicely; he has written an old-fashioned page turned with an ultra-modern setting. As a bonus, the book has politically, even morally instructive, dimensions. Though SEEK is more insidious than the present melange of computer networks, the two-edged danger it poses is already real enough to warrant vigilance: The network is susceptible not only to terrorist penetration but to government snooping. In this novel, the snoop is the National Security Agency, one of SEEK's patrons. Cassidy's concomitant dilemma--whether to tune out and turn on or doggedly fight Big Brother from within the system--is intelligently handled."--San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Dirk Hanson is a freelance science reporter and novelist. His non-fiction books include The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction (Booksurge) and The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution (Little, Brown). He is also the author of The Seventh Level: A Novel.

Hanson's work has been favorably reviewed by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Fortune, New Yorker and other publications.

His articles have appeared in California Magazine, Omni, CoEvolution Quarterly, and the Whole Mind Newsletter.

Dirk is a regular columnist focusing on the latest research related to addiction science for the highly regarded web site Brain Blogger.

Previously, he worked as a business and technology reporter for Electronic News and the Des Moines Register. He maintains his own blog at Addiction Inbox.

Hanson graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. degree in Journalism and received his M.A. degree in Humanities from California State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (July 14, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439243727
• ISBN-13: 978-1439243725
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,108,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dirk Hanson is a freelance science writer and novelist. He is also the author of "The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution." He has worked as a business and technology reporter for numerous magazines and trade publications. He currently edits the Addiction Inbox blog. His work has appeared in Scientific American, Huffington Post, AlterNet, California, Omni, and other magazines.