The Termination Node - Softcover

Gresh, Lois; Weinberg, Robert

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ISBN 10: 034541246X ISBN 13: 9780345412461

Publisher: Del Rey, 1999

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Twenty-something Judy Carmody is a total hacker, the best in the Internet security business. But even Judy has never seen anything like this--a cyber-heist that instantly vaporizes the assets of a major bank. Penetrating all state-of-the-art defenses in the dead of night, someone is using a mysterious new code to empty accounts, leaving no trail.

The masterminds have thought of everything--including the elimination of every hacker who might be able to stop them. As Judy desperately hurries to crack the deadly code, she uncovers secrets that reach the highest levels of power--secrets that jeopardize the security and privacy of every citizen . . .

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From the Back Cover:

"[A] breathless . . . computer-driven techno-thriller."
--The New York Times Book Review

"ONE STEP REMOVED FROM TOM CLANCY, ONE STEP CLOSER THAN WILLIAM GIBSON, THE TERMINATION NODE IS A CYBERTHRILLER ABOUT REALITY JUST WAITING TO HAPPEN."
--KEVIN J. ANDERSON
New York Times bestselling author

"An exciting plot that boasts enough authentic high-tech detail to make the criminal possibilities of electronic finance seem very real, and just a few mouse clicks away."
--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

As a computer specialist, Lois H. Gresh designs tests for security loopholes. As a project engineer, she handles failures of hardware circuitry, microcode, and operating systems. As a programmer, she designs and codes corporate Web sites and systems using C, Java, JavaScript, VRML 2.0, and various multimedia tools. She's written assembly language on numerous platforms, including routines to test the instruction set of a new CPU chip. She designed and coded Cobol/Fortran/JCL applications for federal and state welfare programs and for the U.S. Department of Defense. She has firsthand knowledge of high-level corporate takeovers in the computer industry, as well as the culture and business operations of companies in Silicon Valley and Southern California. As a fiction writer, Lois is the author of dozens of suspense and science fiction stories. Her story "Digital Pistil" won a national science fiction award. Six of her stories have been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and Bram Stoker Awards. Lois lives in Rochester, New York.

A prolific author, Robert Weinberg has worked extensively in the suspense, horror, and science fiction fields. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Dark Love, Phobias, and David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible. He has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Balrog Awards and is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. His work has been translated into Japanese, French, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Romanian, and German. Robert lives near Chicago.

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