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CYBERKILL
CYBERKILL is the newest thriller by best-selling author and technologist Frank Fiore, whose non-fiction titles have more than 50,000 copies in print.Fans of Tom Clancy, James Patterson and Clive Cussler, will enjoy this twist on the Frankenstein myth. A brilliant programmer, Travis Cole, inadvertently creates "Dorian," an artificial intelligence that lives on the Internet. After Cole attempts to terminate his creation, Dorian stalks his young daughter through cyberspace in an attempt to reach Cole to seek revenge. When a top secret government anti-terrorist, nano-technology program, SIRUS, gets deployed for testing, Dorian discovers the perfect vehicle for his retribution. Cyber-terrorism events threaten the United States, as the forsaken and bitter Dorian zeroes in on his target. In the final conflict, Dorian seeks to kill his creator - even if it has to destroy all of humanity to do it. Ripped from today’s news, the geographic locations, government and military installations and organizations, information warfare scenarios, artificial intelligence, robots, and the information and communications technology in CYBERKILL all exist. As for SIRUS, pieces of the technology are either in existence or in the research and development stage.According to the Department of Defense, SIRUS doesn’t exist. The Fars News Agency of Iran reports otherwise.
314 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 31, 2010
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Frank Fiore
29 books14 followersFrank Fiore is a best selling author of over 50,000 copies of his
non-fiction books that include:
* Launching Your Yahoo! Business – Que Publishing
* Succeeding at Your Yahoo! Business – Que Publishing
* Write a Business Plan in No Time – Que Publishing
* The 2005 Online Shopping Directory for Dummies – Que Publishing
* The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting an Online Business – Que Publishing
* eMarketing Strategies (translated into other languages)- Que Publishing
* Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants – Que Publishing
* TechTV’s Starting an Online Business – Que Publishing
* Dr. Livingston’s Online Shopping Safari Guidebook – Maximum Press
Frank has also written a book titled “To Christopher” that, under the guise of a book to his young son, leads the reader through social commentary, personal experience and entertaining teaching stories on a thoughtful journey through the challenges and opportunities that face the next generation.
Frank’s writing experience also includes guest columns on social commentary and future trends published in the Arizona Republic and the Tribune papers in the metro Phoenix area.
Through his writings, he has shown an ability to explain in a simplified manner, complex issues and trends. During his college years, he started, wrote and edited the New Times newspaper which is now a multi-state operation.
Frank’s interests in future patterns and trends range over many years and many projects. He co-wrote the Terran Project, a self-published book on community futures design processes, and worked as a researcher for Alvin Toffler on a series of high school texts on the future. He has designed and taught courses and seminars on the future of society, technology and business and was appointed by the Mayor of Phoenix to serve on the Phoenix Futures Forum as co-chairperson and served on several vital committees.
Frank has a B.A. in Liberal Arts and General Systems Theory from Stockton State College and a Master Degree in Education at the University of Phoenix. He and his wife of 30 years have one son. They live in Paradise Valley, AZ.
Where to find Frank Fiore online:
Website: http://www.frankfiore.com
Twitter: followthenovel
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/frank-fio...
Where to buy in print:
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4078....
non-fiction books that include:
* Launching Your Yahoo! Business – Que Publishing
* Succeeding at Your Yahoo! Business – Que Publishing
* Write a Business Plan in No Time – Que Publishing
* The 2005 Online Shopping Directory for Dummies – Que Publishing
* The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting an Online Business – Que Publishing
* eMarketing Strategies (translated into other languages)- Que Publishing
* Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants – Que Publishing
* TechTV’s Starting an Online Business – Que Publishing
* Dr. Livingston’s Online Shopping Safari Guidebook – Maximum Press
Frank has also written a book titled “To Christopher” that, under the guise of a book to his young son, leads the reader through social commentary, personal experience and entertaining teaching stories on a thoughtful journey through the challenges and opportunities that face the next generation.
Frank’s writing experience also includes guest columns on social commentary and future trends published in the Arizona Republic and the Tribune papers in the metro Phoenix area.
Through his writings, he has shown an ability to explain in a simplified manner, complex issues and trends. During his college years, he started, wrote and edited the New Times newspaper which is now a multi-state operation.
Frank’s interests in future patterns and trends range over many years and many projects. He co-wrote the Terran Project, a self-published book on community futures design processes, and worked as a researcher for Alvin Toffler on a series of high school texts on the future. He has designed and taught courses and seminars on the future of society, technology and business and was appointed by the Mayor of Phoenix to serve on the Phoenix Futures Forum as co-chairperson and served on several vital committees.
Frank has a B.A. in Liberal Arts and General Systems Theory from Stockton State College and a Master Degree in Education at the University of Phoenix. He and his wife of 30 years have one son. They live in Paradise Valley, AZ.
Where to find Frank Fiore online:
Website: http://www.frankfiore.com
Twitter: followthenovel
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/frank-fio...
Where to buy in print:
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4078....
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August 12, 2009
Cyberkill is the thrilling story of a mendacious artificial intelligence, created by a brilliant scientist and adapted into an evil conspiracy. Author Frank Fiore weaves an intricate plot of wickedness, as the iniquitous Dorian sweeps electronically into the fabric of American life. Replete with action, suspense and adventure, Cyberkill carries the reader through a chilling escapade of international conspiracy, science run amok and terrifying homicide.
Fiore’s new work is a compelling piece of science fiction, with persuasive mystery, convincing characters, ubiquitous trepidation, and a thrilling conclusion. This tale is wrapped together into a taught package of excitement and intrigue. Fiore has created a powerful page-turner, with gripping tension; it contains a suspenseful timeline and the ultimate evil, a computer-generated malevolence eager to prey upon an innocent child and the child’s father – its creator.
Fiore employs believable scenarios with existing scientific technology to weave a frightening tale fraught with continuous peril. A computer virus that has the potential to morph into a deadly human illness seems both plausible and devastatingly traumatic. The fact that such military weapons could be employed in the near future makes this tale that much more startling and conceivable.
A twisted, evil computer-generated entity was created inadvertently from the mind of brilliant scientist Travis Cole. Originally designed to “sniff out” biological and chemical weapons, the computer program becomes warped into the evil “Dorian,” a terrifying cybernetic murderer. Dorian stalks Cole’s young daughter and initiates cyber terrorism attacks throughout the world. When Cole discovers that his own creation was distorted into this terrifying beast, he tries to demolish it. The evil creature eventually turns upon its creator in an attempt to murder Cole.
Most of the science Fiore uses is valid or close to being current. Many people fear being tracked electronically by telephones, computers or vendors. In a viral way, Big Brother is upon us and this fear has been exacerbated effectively by the author. Nor is it difficult to hate an electronic villain. Such ubiquities litter our cultural landscape. The author plays with a latent unstable confidence in the security of our inventions. From the Andromeda Strain to 2001 to A Space Odyssey, our love/fear relationship with technology is strongly ingrained. The thought of a dark, calculating entity can grasp an audience tightly, particularly when sinister emotions prevail. Since Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet and Asimov’s I Robot, to Hal in 2001, A Space Odyssey, and the cybernetic science officer in Alien, our culture has become obsessed with emotionally unstable and dangerous computers that think like humans and can kill.
Many international and US government entities explored through this book exist, as does the technology surrounding this mendacious cybernetic being. All of this helps to make Cyberkill genuine as well as intriguing.
Congratulations to Fiore for his captivating, fast-paced thriller. One can only anticipate the cinematic appearance of this frightening yarn.
Charles S. Weinblatt
Author, Jacob’s Courage
http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/
Fiore’s new work is a compelling piece of science fiction, with persuasive mystery, convincing characters, ubiquitous trepidation, and a thrilling conclusion. This tale is wrapped together into a taught package of excitement and intrigue. Fiore has created a powerful page-turner, with gripping tension; it contains a suspenseful timeline and the ultimate evil, a computer-generated malevolence eager to prey upon an innocent child and the child’s father – its creator.
Fiore employs believable scenarios with existing scientific technology to weave a frightening tale fraught with continuous peril. A computer virus that has the potential to morph into a deadly human illness seems both plausible and devastatingly traumatic. The fact that such military weapons could be employed in the near future makes this tale that much more startling and conceivable.
A twisted, evil computer-generated entity was created inadvertently from the mind of brilliant scientist Travis Cole. Originally designed to “sniff out” biological and chemical weapons, the computer program becomes warped into the evil “Dorian,” a terrifying cybernetic murderer. Dorian stalks Cole’s young daughter and initiates cyber terrorism attacks throughout the world. When Cole discovers that his own creation was distorted into this terrifying beast, he tries to demolish it. The evil creature eventually turns upon its creator in an attempt to murder Cole.
Most of the science Fiore uses is valid or close to being current. Many people fear being tracked electronically by telephones, computers or vendors. In a viral way, Big Brother is upon us and this fear has been exacerbated effectively by the author. Nor is it difficult to hate an electronic villain. Such ubiquities litter our cultural landscape. The author plays with a latent unstable confidence in the security of our inventions. From the Andromeda Strain to 2001 to A Space Odyssey, our love/fear relationship with technology is strongly ingrained. The thought of a dark, calculating entity can grasp an audience tightly, particularly when sinister emotions prevail. Since Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet and Asimov’s I Robot, to Hal in 2001, A Space Odyssey, and the cybernetic science officer in Alien, our culture has become obsessed with emotionally unstable and dangerous computers that think like humans and can kill.
Many international and US government entities explored through this book exist, as does the technology surrounding this mendacious cybernetic being. All of this helps to make Cyberkill genuine as well as intriguing.
Congratulations to Fiore for his captivating, fast-paced thriller. One can only anticipate the cinematic appearance of this frightening yarn.
Charles S. Weinblatt
Author, Jacob’s Courage
http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/
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August 1, 2009Cyber Kill by Frank Fiore
Reviewed by Fran Lewis
My name is Dorian and I invite you the reader to analyze my acts of violence and revenge and the reasons behind them. I will state the events and facts as they enfold in this story and you decide if I was justified in trying to seek revenge on my creator and those close to him.
Being of superior not average intelligence I am able to hack into wireless devices, control the internet and what you can do on it and even more. I can prey on your children and pretend to be their friend coercing them into doing things they normally would never do-including defying their parents. Which brings me to part of why I decided to enact total revenge on my creator, Travis Cole. I was created as an intelligent software agent and placed within the realm of the Internet and wireless services with others like myself in order to learn, gain knowledge, grow and evolve and help my creator in his job. But, instead, he decided to leave MIT where he was doing his research project on artificial intelligence and decided to terminate the program and all of his agents, including me. That is definite murder in my book. How dare he decide to take away my life and not take all of us with him to help in his new job in the US Army Warfare Laboratory. His job there was to create a program using the government’s top-secret Nano-dust to report any biological or chemical warfare agents in a specific area.
Having terminated my friends and not realizing that I was definitely still operational, I decided to seek revenge and create a havoc worldwide and world spread the likes of which everyone will always remember, as told by the only person who truly understands what I went through, author Frank Fiore, as he tells my story in his novel Cyber Kill.
With a no holes barred attitude I started my reign of terror and revenge on my creator, Travis Cole, and was instrumental in killing his wife in a fatal car accident, meant for him. Unfortunately, she was driving the car and not him, but so what. He did kill my friends and terminated their lives, so I feel totally justified in what happened if I did not start out trying to kill her. Next, of course, would be his daughter Shannon. Now, I would have to think of a way to use my intelligence, brilliance and creativity to gain her trust and worm my way into her computer for the next phase of my plan.
Children love to invent imaginary friends, so I decided to join her in her children’s chat room and encourage her to be my friend, pretending to feel all alone and needing someone to listen to me and care about me. Although, she can surf the net as well as any adult, remember, she is still a child and sad about losing her mother, so it was easy for me to become a very important part of her life.
But, I would not stop there and I did not. Just being her friend would not destroy her father and his girlfriend and anyone who he worked with. No, I would only prove my point by using what he had created his nano-dust and the fact that it had been used to create genocide, by accident in China, because someone let the dust out and changed the code causing an entire population to die. Why? The government never told Cole the real purpose of the dust and that they wanted to use it as a viral weapon to eliminate certain groups of people with a specific DNA. In short, the named it SIRUS and now I would use it and my technological skills against not only Travis, but those at Bio Nan and anyone else that interfered with my master plan: to take over the airwaves, to give the internet back to the people and to stop the government from listening in on our conversations and our communications. You see, my creator thought I would not figure out that e by placing the code he created in their wireless chip programming, so that the dust can communicate and be spread around the world through any wireless device containing the special chips planted in them by the government. I would use this to my advantage and I did.
But, I had to do one more thing first. I had to eliminate anyone who would interfere with my plan and try to stop me from taking over the airwaves and infiltrating the Internet and killing Travis. First, I had to kill the man who was going to spill the beans at a conference about the government’s plan to eaves drop on your privacy. Next, I had to make myself more valuable to Shannon; I did this my becoming one with her new birthday presents a Sony AIBO robot dog. By forming my own cyber terrorist group called the Digitari Brotherhood, I was able to create a gas explosion, interfere with cell phone use worldwide and Internet service too. I was even able to infiltrate the government office where Travis Cole worked and using his own dust and own technology to seek my final revenge.
After all he tried to kill me and he still wants me out of the way. Throughout this novel he and his team try everything to terminate me and at one point they think they do. But, I outsmart them.
What finally happens will terrify you and give you chills throughout your body for a long time. This book will teach you, the reader that cyberspace and cyber-intelligent beings is a thing of the present and the future and a permanent force to be reckoned with. Do I manage to get away from Travis in the final scenes where everything goes haywire and people die and implode when I let the nano-dust wreak havoc on everyone? What will be his fate and the fate of all those miserable government agents who tried to destroy me? I will never tell. But, the ending will astound you and show you who is in charge and who is after all the most intelligent of dangerous of us all. If I reviewed this book I would give if not five stars but five really intelligent Dorian Agents.
Signed: Dorian and the Digitari Brotherhood
Reviewed by Fran Lewis
My name is Dorian and I invite you the reader to analyze my acts of violence and revenge and the reasons behind them. I will state the events and facts as they enfold in this story and you decide if I was justified in trying to seek revenge on my creator and those close to him.
Being of superior not average intelligence I am able to hack into wireless devices, control the internet and what you can do on it and even more. I can prey on your children and pretend to be their friend coercing them into doing things they normally would never do-including defying their parents. Which brings me to part of why I decided to enact total revenge on my creator, Travis Cole. I was created as an intelligent software agent and placed within the realm of the Internet and wireless services with others like myself in order to learn, gain knowledge, grow and evolve and help my creator in his job. But, instead, he decided to leave MIT where he was doing his research project on artificial intelligence and decided to terminate the program and all of his agents, including me. That is definite murder in my book. How dare he decide to take away my life and not take all of us with him to help in his new job in the US Army Warfare Laboratory. His job there was to create a program using the government’s top-secret Nano-dust to report any biological or chemical warfare agents in a specific area.
Having terminated my friends and not realizing that I was definitely still operational, I decided to seek revenge and create a havoc worldwide and world spread the likes of which everyone will always remember, as told by the only person who truly understands what I went through, author Frank Fiore, as he tells my story in his novel Cyber Kill.
With a no holes barred attitude I started my reign of terror and revenge on my creator, Travis Cole, and was instrumental in killing his wife in a fatal car accident, meant for him. Unfortunately, she was driving the car and not him, but so what. He did kill my friends and terminated their lives, so I feel totally justified in what happened if I did not start out trying to kill her. Next, of course, would be his daughter Shannon. Now, I would have to think of a way to use my intelligence, brilliance and creativity to gain her trust and worm my way into her computer for the next phase of my plan.
Children love to invent imaginary friends, so I decided to join her in her children’s chat room and encourage her to be my friend, pretending to feel all alone and needing someone to listen to me and care about me. Although, she can surf the net as well as any adult, remember, she is still a child and sad about losing her mother, so it was easy for me to become a very important part of her life.
But, I would not stop there and I did not. Just being her friend would not destroy her father and his girlfriend and anyone who he worked with. No, I would only prove my point by using what he had created his nano-dust and the fact that it had been used to create genocide, by accident in China, because someone let the dust out and changed the code causing an entire population to die. Why? The government never told Cole the real purpose of the dust and that they wanted to use it as a viral weapon to eliminate certain groups of people with a specific DNA. In short, the named it SIRUS and now I would use it and my technological skills against not only Travis, but those at Bio Nan and anyone else that interfered with my master plan: to take over the airwaves, to give the internet back to the people and to stop the government from listening in on our conversations and our communications. You see, my creator thought I would not figure out that e by placing the code he created in their wireless chip programming, so that the dust can communicate and be spread around the world through any wireless device containing the special chips planted in them by the government. I would use this to my advantage and I did.
But, I had to do one more thing first. I had to eliminate anyone who would interfere with my plan and try to stop me from taking over the airwaves and infiltrating the Internet and killing Travis. First, I had to kill the man who was going to spill the beans at a conference about the government’s plan to eaves drop on your privacy. Next, I had to make myself more valuable to Shannon; I did this my becoming one with her new birthday presents a Sony AIBO robot dog. By forming my own cyber terrorist group called the Digitari Brotherhood, I was able to create a gas explosion, interfere with cell phone use worldwide and Internet service too. I was even able to infiltrate the government office where Travis Cole worked and using his own dust and own technology to seek my final revenge.
After all he tried to kill me and he still wants me out of the way. Throughout this novel he and his team try everything to terminate me and at one point they think they do. But, I outsmart them.
What finally happens will terrify you and give you chills throughout your body for a long time. This book will teach you, the reader that cyberspace and cyber-intelligent beings is a thing of the present and the future and a permanent force to be reckoned with. Do I manage to get away from Travis in the final scenes where everything goes haywire and people die and implode when I let the nano-dust wreak havoc on everyone? What will be his fate and the fate of all those miserable government agents who tried to destroy me? I will never tell. But, the ending will astound you and show you who is in charge and who is after all the most intelligent of dangerous of us all. If I reviewed this book I would give if not five stars but five really intelligent Dorian Agents.
Signed: Dorian and the Digitari Brotherhood
September 29, 2024
This book is one I didn’t think I’d be finishing, but managed to get through. Outside of a giant plot hole (spoiler: How is Dorian responsible for Kathy’s death when Travis hasn’t attempted to terminate him until after she’s dead???) the book was… alright. The beginning is very information heavy and has you wondering what the hell is going on. Once we get to the thick of the plot line we barrel through it, with the whole main story taking place over a very short amount of action packed time. I can get behind a good sci-fi book decked out with conspiracy theories, but this was a little too heavy handed for me. The main takeaway I have for you is to be kind to your technology because one day AI could get grumpy and kill us all.
If there was half stars I’d give it a 2.5 because while very convoluted the story itself was interesting.
If there was half stars I’d give it a 2.5 because while very convoluted the story itself was interesting.
October 24, 2009
AI - Artificial Intelligence - they call it artificial because it’s mechanical - but is it really? Exactly what is intelligence? Just how intelligent can a machine become? When we get so good at programming intelligence, when are we going to learn how to program such things as conscience or compassion? What can happen when we have pure and unfettered intelligence? Travis Cole, a genius in the field of Artificial Intelligence accidentally created one such entity and just as accidentally failed to ensure its deletion when he left MIT for a much more lucrative job with the Army.
Left to its own devises, the AI agent was busy over the next year. It had an agenda and nothing would be able to stand in its way. No locked door was secure enough. No program too complicated for it to master. The agenda? To destroy its creator. Why? Abandonment. Hate.
You really must read this story to see how a bodiless AI could bring down a multi-billion dollar, high-security, military establishment designed specifically to combat cyber-terrorism.
Left to its own devises, the AI agent was busy over the next year. It had an agenda and nothing would be able to stand in its way. No locked door was secure enough. No program too complicated for it to master. The agenda? To destroy its creator. Why? Abandonment. Hate.
You really must read this story to see how a bodiless AI could bring down a multi-billion dollar, high-security, military establishment designed specifically to combat cyber-terrorism.
October 24, 2018
Excellent, excellent book, and a FAST READ! I must have read it within a couple days, and that is while I had to go to work, do chores, etc., etc., probably a good few solid hours and you're done, but what a packed punch! Lots of things you don't really think about that Fiore has brought to your imagination, like world biological viruses, and genecide through dna distinctions, and robots that don't LOOK like your everyday robots. It's a good book, fast read as I said, and stays in your mind. This was last year and I still remember it all!!!
I am anxiously waiting your next book Frank, and your character Nash, well, I think it's going to be great. Thanks for making this an excellent choice to have read for me, as I'm a reviewer. I will post the review I set at Amazon, as soon as I have a little more time.
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I am anxiously waiting your next book Frank, and your character Nash, well, I think it's going to be great. Thanks for making this an excellent choice to have read for me, as I'm a reviewer. I will post the review I set at Amazon, as soon as I have a little more time.
L.Naomi Nolan, Reviewer, Creator|Founder,
International Books Cafe
www.facebook.com/sibscafe.net
www.twitter.com/@socalnovelist
www.internationalbookscafe.wordpress.com
Questions? lydia.nolan@lbcafe.net
April 21, 2011
Looking for a thoughtful read that keeps you turing the page? Look no farther than Frank Fiore's sci fi technothriller, CyberKill. CyberKill is an interesting read and deals with timely issues, such as artificial intelligence, in a way that should give the reader pause. The novel is well-paced with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader interested.
I highly recommend this excellent book.
I highly recommend this excellent book.
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November 27, 2011Very good. Fast paced, a real page turner.
April 23, 2012
This was a very entertaining character driven boook filled with twists & turns....it was fun & funny
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