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The Blue Nowhere
The Blue Nowhere
Author: Jeffery Deaver
When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and -- with chilling precision -- lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself ane...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780684871271
ISBN-10: 0684871270
Publication Date: 5/1/2001
Pages: 432
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 74 ratings
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 4
This book just might scare you away from the Internet forever! Great story, intense suspense, keeps you guessing right til the end. Lots of technical computer jargon, but that's what I loved about it. I feel semi-educated as well as thoroughly entertained.
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Helpful Score: 3
I thought it was a very successful thriller. It is not easy to craft a compelling story based on software and code issues but Deaver did. "Cryptonomicon," by N. Stephenson, and "Digital Fortress," by D. Brown, are the closest books I can think of to this type of story, but in terms of tightness of plot and ease of narration, I think "The Blue Nowhere" surpasses both. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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Helpful Score: 1
chilling
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Helpful Score: 1
This was Jeffrey Deaver's second chance. He gets one more, because I didn't particularly enjoy this one either. Again with the continuity errors, and I felt in several cases he spent too much time developing characters that didn't stay in the plot. Also instead of leaving clues in the book that would have given us a chance to figure stuff out, he has his characters, at the end explain everything. They even took turns telling what happened, but none of their clues were listed in the book. A pretty unsatisfactory read, I felt no need to pause and reflect on the "clever" plot.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book was awesome - Jeffery Deaver has still got it. I loved the whole thriller/technology blend. I really enjoy learning about computers and I'm addicted to thrillers, so I thought this was a great book!
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 duncanidaho57 avatar reviewed The Blue Nowhere on
A fascinating look at cyberhackers and how to catch them in a well-devised thriller from Jeffrey Deaver, author of the Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw series.
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I loved this book. The information was accurate and since it's original publication has not gone out of date -- a real feat in the technical world. It's a techno thriller that will keep you reading and on the edge of your seat until the last page.
Cycle304 avatar reviewed The Blue Nowhere on + 135 more book reviews
Jeffery Deaver is one of my favorite authors. He is all over the place in subject lines and that makes him a must-read! In 'The Blue Nowhere' old-school detectives meet the computer age and it isn't a joyful union. They get a top notch hacker out of prison to aid in their apprehension of a killer who uses the computer to lure his victims. On the edge of the seat reading! I loved this one!
barbsis avatar reviewed The Blue Nowhere on + 1076 more book reviews
Wyatt Gillette, hacker extraordinaire, is temporarily released from prison to help in a murder investigate with the California State Police Computer Crimes Unit (CCU). Serial killer, Phate, is also a very gifted hacker who has left reality behind and is bringing a computer game to the real world. THe idea of the game is to kill as many people as possible in a weeks time. The only catch is that the people must be very secure and basically untouchable. As each kill is completed, the next victim must be harder to access. Wyatt, Frank Bishop (homicide detective), and a small crew of CCU computer geeks, as well as, a few other detectives are working 24/7 to track and trace this brutal serial killer.

Phate (though totally nuts) is a brilliant tactician. He feints one way (false clues) and strikes the other way. He has thir entire team stepping, fetching and tripping over their own feet. Simply spectacular!

Jeffery Deaver has written a masterpiece along the lines of Dan Brown's Digital Fortress though the language is dummed down for us laymen. The intrigue is spellbinding which makes this book difficult to put down. The in depth computer speak (hackers language) bogs it down some but I found that this info isn't necessary to solving the mystery and skipped quite a bit of it. Great book.
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Excellant book, edge of the seat page turner.
myanniecat avatar reviewed The Blue Nowhere on + 218 more book reviews
This is my favorite Deaver book. Loved it!
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Excellebt thriller about hunting down a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and then lures them to their deathes.


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