The Blue Nowhere

About this book

When a sadistic hacker code-named Phate sets his sights on Silicon Valley his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers invades their lives and lures them to their deaths. To Phate each murder is like a big challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds he must challenge himself anew by taking his methodology to a higher level and aiming at bigger targets. Desperate the head of The California State Police Computer Crimes Division frees Wyatt Gillette imprisoned for hacking to aid the investigation against the loud protests of the rest of the division. With an obsession emblematic of hackers Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phates insidious computer virus back to its source. Then Phate delivers a huge blow murdering one of the divisions own a wizard who had pioneered the Internet and the search takes on a zealous intensity. Gillette and Detective Frank Bishop an old-school homicide cop whos accustomed to forensic sleuthing make an uneasy team. But with a merciless and brilliant killer like Phate in their cross hairs and his twisted game reaching a fever pitch they must utilize every ounce of their disparate talents to stop him.