Dan Needles
ASIN: B00I12PVTY
Publisher: Route 11 Publications
Pages: 412
What if a terrorist were a computer virus, its weapon a defect, and its target the U.S. military? Welcome to the present, where the lines are blurred between terrorists and governments, virtual worlds and reality. In a war of information, everyone is on the frontline.Steve Donovan, founder of NEXUS Corp, has developed a virtual technology that could help his daughter walk again. Riddled with guilt over the accident that crippled Brooke, Donovan buries himself in developing the Nexus. But when a young girl dies using the Nexus, CEO Austin Wheeler decides lawsuits are cheaper than a recall. On Tianya Haijiao, China’s southernmost beaches of Hainan Island, a killer waits for all who pass into virtual reality.Exploiting a defect that triggers fatal seizures, a hacker introduces a deadly virus—a virtual serial killer. Torn between his conscious and his invention, and distracted by a sexy ...