The NUMA Files # 19
G.P. Putnam's Sons
June 2022
On Sale: May 24, 2022
Featuring: Kurt; Joe
416 pages ISBN: 0593419677 EAN: 9780593419670 Kindle: B096WZ9VX3 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Β A freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous Chinese pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel.Β
Β Β Β Β Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the middle of a cyber-war between rival groups of hackers, both of whom want to control the flow of data around the world. Β Β Β Β Β With no allies except a group of pirates who operate under their own crude laws, Kurt and Joe must rescue a colleague held hostageβwhile keeping the computers out of Russian or Chinese hands and the worldβs digital information safe from the hackers. Β