Synopsis
PHATE, a super-smart hacker with serious homicidal tendencies, is luring victims to their deaths after learning all about their lives by infiltrating their computers. The LAPD frees notorious hacker Wyatt Gilette from prison, so that he can help to track PHATE down. Wyatt must work with old-school detective Frank Bristol, who doesn't cotton to hotshot young computer whizzes and their newfangled ideas. Frank and Wyatt fight like cats and dogs but--surprise!--soon come to grudgingly respect one another. When not busy bickering, they work on catching PHATE.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2004-07-01 | | Narrated by: | Dennis Boutsikaris |
Publisher's Note
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 Sate 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 Phate's insidious computer virus back to its source. Then Phate delivers a huge blow, murdering one of the division's 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 who's accustomed to forensic sleuthing - make an uneasy team. But with a merciless and brilliant killer like Phate in their crosshairs, and his twisted game reaching a fever pitch, they must utilize every ounce of their talents to stop him.
Industry Reviews
"Deaver packs THE BLUE NOWHERE with enough twists and surprises that even the most alert reader will be gulled.... But the thing that makes THE BLUE NOWHERE truly effective is the author's embrace of geek-speak."
San Francisco Chronicle - David Lazarus (05/06/2001)
"Well-conceived and bursting with surprises, this is an often-scary look at some of the dangers lurking out there in the blue nowhere."
Chicago Tribune - Chris Petrakos (06/03/2001)
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