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ISBN: 1575660814 / Publisher: Kensington, September 1996
When a cyber terrorist seizes control of the Worldwide Information Network, computer crimes special agent Luanne Russell hunts down a second computer criminal on the run and challenges him to confront the terrorist
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It starts with unexplained glitches in the U.S. banking system: private funds are transferred and automatic teller transactions are scrambled. It spreads into the business community, first nationally, then throughout the world. A cyber terrorist has done the unthinkable: by seizing control of the Worldwide Information Network, he has the power to close airports at will, paralyze telephone communications across continents, stop the sales of weapons, and put a stranglehold on arms delivery systems on land and sea.As the global community marshalls its forces against this insidious threat, nations from Israel to Russia, from France to Japan, all join in uneasy alliance. And in the United States, the President issues CIA officer Peter Martin an Executive Order: to use all the means at his disposal to stop this unseen enemy - before it is too late.
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