Found this book, while browsing my local library. Nothing on the "New Books" shelf caught my eye, so I went back in the stacks. The book had an interesting "tease", on the inside cover, so I checked it out. The story was fairly plausible, and relatively well-written, though it was somewhat overwrought. Then, I realized that, though it was published in 2003, it was probably written right after 9/11/2001, when terrorism was extremely fresh in the minds of Americans. The author is a computer engineer, living in Austin, Texas, and there were moments, when the computerese got a little thick, even for someone who is relatively well-versed in computers. Overall, not a bad book, but I'm not sure I would recommend it to anyone, but members of the tin-foil hat crowd.