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CIRCUMFERENCE OF DARKNESS
By: Jack Henderson
Bantam
July 2007
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Featuring: Jeannie Reese; John Fagan
528 pages
ISBN: 0553805150
EAN: 9780553805154
Hardcover
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Twenty-two-year-old Jeannie Reese is a computer wunderkindβ and the top architect of next-generation security for the Department of Defense. Her latest brainchild is IRIN, the most powerful surveillance technology ever developed. To date, IRIN has remained ultraclassified and inactive. But on the day a shocking act of terrorism strikes U.S. shores, the presidential order comes to launch Jeannieβs creation against the dark forces behind the attack. Known only as Phr33k, forty-one-year-old John Fagan is a legendary, reclusive computer hacker. For years he has expertly hidden himself while operating freely within the shadows of the Internetβs background noise. He has remained in complete seclusion despite his infamy as the author of a slew of massive electronic crimes β and despite his long- ago, now eerily prophetic, scenarios of terrorist warfare against America. Under Jeannieβs direction, IRIN gathers and analyzes endless data β and unearths Phr33k. If she is to stop the next stage of a terror campaign clearly begun years before, Jeannie will have to find the ΓΌberhacker; but that is only the beginning. For she soon discovers that Phr33k is being held by the leader of a vast terrorist network, who now plans to use this unique genius to conceive and deliver his final, fatal blow: a devastating nationwide wave of unparalleled destruction. For his part, Phr33k is used to working alone. But all that will have to change. He has a new challenge, one unlike any heβs faced before: how to provide Jeannie Reese with one outrageous, impossible shot to short-circuit the perfect, unstoppable scheme he so masterfully β and so unwillingly β helped to create.
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