Rosemarie S. reviewed on 4/27/2006 + 69 more book reviews

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This book was published in 2001. Remember your computer history, this was the era where everyone was buying personal computers, getting connected with the world wide web and getting in trouble with viruses and worms. The anti-virus software industry was just in its infancy. Deaver uses the WWW (termed the blue nowhere) as a focus of a serial killer. The killer is a 'cracker' (which is different from a hacker, but read the novel to learn the difference). Today in 2006 we are wiser and this book is now a classic thriller from the by-gone era of the wild-west of the web and internet. Deaver has to explain 'net' terms that are now second-nature to us which slows the plot down somewhat for the 2006 internet savy reader. Despite this, the book is a great read from the historic net wild-west perspective as well as a nail-biting thriller.

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