Cool Jazz Spy

CIA agent John Angstrom, the hero of Bartusiak’s chilling novel about a cyberterror attack, has had his life transformed by the relationship that has developed between him and an attractive Russian defector, Anna Czolski. But his romantic life is put on hold when various sectors of the U.S. come under attack from sophisticated malware that overwhelms all the defenses the government has put into place. Meanwhile, a shadowy figure, who may have some connection to Anna, is quietly embarking on a murderous campaign of terror, beginning with an operative who retired from the game decades before. Diagrams and footnotes add to the story’s credibility, but readers should be prepared for some technical jargon (“with fpxe installed on the network card, and after a subsequent reboot of the computer, fpxe causes the PC to boot off of the remote BIOS from a C&C server, thereby bypassing the valid BIOS of the computer”). [em](BookLife) [/em]