Format C Author:Edwin Black Ripped from today's headlines, Format C: is a tense and compelling apocalyptic techno-thriller about the final battle between Good and Evil fought amidst the race to fix the Millennium Bug. The richest man on earth, Ben Hinnom owns the world's largest computer company (based in Seattle), which sells the WindGazer 99 operating system. Hinnom use... more »s global fears of the Y2K problem to launch the ultimate domination of mankind. The only ones standing in his way are a brash yet guilt-ridden Chicago reporter named Dan Levin, his computer-savvy girlfriend Park, and her profoundly inward teenage son, Sal, whose genius becomes the nexus in their fight to save humanity. Format C: takes readers from the cutthroat competition of the computer world and big media in Chicago and Washington, D.C. to Jerusalem's Old City, to the caves of Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls (and the mysterious Copper Scroll) heighten the intrigue, to the back alleys of ancient Tsfat where Kabbalistic mysteries are unraveled, to the Valley of Death -the actual location of Biblical Hell in a cavern-filled valley outside Jerusalem's Old City known in ancient times for child immolation. It all culminates in the prophesied final battle between Good and Evil at midnight on December 31, 1999 at Har Megiddo in Israel, the site known as Armageddon. Edwin Black is the author of The Transfer Agreement, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for best nonfiction book of 1984. He is an investigative reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Journal of the American Bar Association. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS Morning News, and America's Most Wanted. As a foreign correspondent in Jerusalem, he explored the actual sites of prophesy and apocalypse, where he descended into the caves and met the personalities that energize the novel.« less