The Corruption Code

by Jeffrey Gibson

A young software programmer is enjoying a meal with his wife and daughter, when a work issue leads him to the coffee shop across the street in search of internet for his laptop. A United States Congressman agrees to participate in a demonstration of a fully self-driving car down a busy street in San Francisco. He learns that he will be alone in the car, and reluctantly agrees to sit in the back seat and let the computer do all the driving. An FBI agent is enjoying an ice cream cone when the speeding car passes by him, running a red light and strikes down the wife and daughter, innocently walking in the crosswalk to join the programmer at the coffee shop. The Congressman is arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter. In the course of the investigation, the code in the car’s computer was found to have been altered and remotely controlled by a hacker. Little did the FBI agent know that he had uncovered a case of corporate espionage that he must solve before the car is used to kill again.

370 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 22, 2019