Hardwired - Juliet Blake #4 Author:Sally Chapman From Booklist — Now in her fourth adventure, Julie Blake has clearly established herself as the doyenne of Silicon Valley sleuths. This time, she and her partner-cum-lover Vic Paoli get hired by NASA to find a hacker intent on sabotaging a space-shuttle mission. The idea of working among astronauts-in-training at the Johnson Space Center in Houst... more »on sounds great, except that the woman who hired Julie is Vic's old girlfriend. Soon rekindled romance is the least of Julie's problems as astronauts start dropping dead under mysterious circumstances, and Vic and Julie learn that the last shuttle crew experienced a "close encounter," during which the computers went dead, but their monitors displayed a mysterious pattern of numbers^--the same numbers now appearing on computer screens throughout the center. Is an alien being the ultimate hacker? Chapman again delivers an enjoyable and intriguing mystery, sparked by lively characters, an imaginative plot, and a well-drawn setting.« less