This second in the Lana Elkins series by Thomas
Waite again focuses not
just on cybercrime but on cyberwar. That's when
malicious hackers don't just target your bank account,
they
target your nation's water supply or electricity network.
TRIDENT CODE follows LETHAL CODE, which looked at a
possible
first cyberattack on the United States.
The powerful story opens with an engineer and inventor
returning home to find his wife and children held by
gunmen. They force him to hand over the details of his
latest creation, which can remove carbon from the
atmosphere and help turn it into fuel. No mad scientist,
he'd thought his life was going great and had signed a
secrecy deal with one oil firm. He suspects another oil
firm is behind the brutal threat.
Lana Elkins, cyber security specialist, is working on the
issue of nuclear powered Russian icebreakers in the
Arctic
Sea when news is sent to her that hackers have taken over
an American Trident submarine, poisoning the crew. As
this
sub is armed with nuclear warheads she gets straight to
work to see who could be behind the foul deed. Her
teenage
daughter Emma isn't impressed: Mom's missing her concert
again.
Crime really is global, and it can occur
anywhere a computer security can be breached. Personnel
are
all too fragile with habits like gambling, and passwords
or
codes can be broken with decryption programs using
today's
super-fast hardware. Climate change and sea level rise
are
to the fore, with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet a
terrorist
target which will affect most of the densely populated
areas of the world. The Russians expect to be high and
dry.
Is it too late for a terrified Russian hacker to
get help and save her little daughter?
Nobody can accuse Thomas Waite of thinking small, so if
you're looking for a fast, awe-inspiring thriller
brimming
with cybercrime, environmental disaster, and human
dilemmas,
the only question about TRIDENT CODE is - can you think
big
enough?
Ruthless cyberhackers seize a US nuclear submarine, training
its most powerful weapon on a target so unusual, yet so
vulnerable, that a successful strike could change the face
of the earth for millions of years. With the world held
hostage, former NSA operative Lana Elkins must join forces
with a mysterious computer mastermind—who might be working
with the enemy—to avert this unprecedented Armageddon.
Intrigue, power, and blackmail force Lana to fight on all
fronts—land, sea, air, and in cyberspace—to prevent the
worst catastrophe in human history.
The author of Lethal Code returns with a new geopolitical
thriller that combines cyberterror, environmental
devastation, and unhinged ambition.
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