The Blue Nowhere: A NovelJeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop, delivers a masterful thriller about a psychotic computer hacker/killer. Set in Silicon Valley, full of stunning—and fact-based—technical details, The Blue Nowhere is Deaver for the 21st Century. His code name is Phate—a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. To stop him, the authorities free imprisoned former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid the investigation. Teamed with old-school homicide detective Frank Bishop, Gillette must combine their disparate talents to catch a brilliant and merciless killer. |
Contents
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II DEMONS | 91 |
III SOCIAL ENGINEERING | 179 |
IV ACCESS | 251 |
V THE EXPERT LEVEL | 327 |
VI ITS ALL IN THE SPELLING | 391 |
AUTHORS NOTE | 427 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 429 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 431 |
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Page 7 - When I say that the brain is a machine, it is meant not as an insult to the mind but as an acknowledgment of the potential of a machine. I do not believe that a human mind is less than what we imagine it to be, but rather that a machine can be much, much more.
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