Set in the year 2010, this techno-thriller follows Alex Michaels and the FBI’s Net Force division as they investigate a high-level security breach within their own technological infrastructure. The plot centers on a sophisticated frame-up where an unknown entity manipulates digital evidence to implicate the agency’s leadership in criminal activity. As the team tracks encrypted signals and hunts for a ghost in the machine, they uncover a corporate conspiracy aiming to control the global flow of information by destabilizing government authority.
Readers interested in the logistics of cyber-warfare and digital surveillance will find a detailed look at the tension between technological advancement and national security. Individuals who study speculative fiction about late-twentieth-century internet fears gain a perspective on how writers predicted the evolution of white-collar cybercrime. The book provides a technical breakdown of how virtual reality and networked databases could be weaponized to manipulate political reality, leaving the reader with a functional understanding of early conceptualizations of information warfare.
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
