A techno-thriller so accurate it may not be fiction at all! Congress acts quickly after a series of security breaches leads to military and diplomatic crisis. Billions are spent in hastily written defense contracts, but embarrassing blunders continue. As alliances and the balance of power shift, Maj. Boyd Chailland goes undercover in the Pentagon to find the mole leaking secrets; but it isn't a mole. In an adventure that sweeps from Africa to the Arctic, Boyd finds a fundamental flaw in our Information Technology infrastructure, and a conspiracy that is milking it for profit and pushing America off our perch as the world's superpower. Then Chailland's family disappears and he must confront his own dark past.
There is a super amount of action in this thriller. The characters are true to their roles, especially the main antagonist. He is pure evil and wields a horrific amount of trouble for the good guys. He seems to be unstoppable and appears to gain a huge amount of delight in payback to those he deems his enemies. There are others in his gang who are just as bad if not worse. I found it all to be really scary.
The plot is filled with an amazing amount of skill in various areas. The technicality of how it all comes down is obviously written with a lot of knowledge or determined research. I am nowhere near understanding all of it, but it sounded plausible enough to get me turning the pages.
I would recommend this novel to any who enjoy the genre. I am becoming a huge fan of this kind of adventure.
Maj. Boyd Chailland is an Air Force officer and has been tasked to investigate the escape of a felon that he was instrumental in putting in the countries maximum high security prison. The escape had masterminded among other things the attempted assassination of the President. Now with the help of a renegade MIT software professor he is orchestrating a series of "accidents" and military actions around he world to create crisis events that prompt the Congress to grant contracts to companies he controls without due process. Maj. Chailland is flying around to various trouble spots in an attempt to discern what is happening. Action, Danger and not a small amount of "it could actually happen" keep this one moving along.