"The First Law of Anything that can be turned on underprogram control can be turned off; anything that can be controlledremotely can be thrown out of control remotely."Destiny Allen doesn't even like on-line games. A Web designer forcomputer security giant Scenaria Systems, she finds herself involved in a deadly puzzle that blurs the boundaries between the virtual and thereal. At the infrastructure of modern America. Her Gustafson, a college friend, and Karl Lustig, an Israeli technology journalist with friends in dark places. The sort the goodguys from the bad before the lights go out.Intricately plotted at a breathless pace, this technology thriller fromnovelist Lior Samson (author of Bashert and The Dome) is about realrisks and virtual worlds, about Internet threats as close as tomorrow'snightly news, and about the ever-escalating warfare between black-hathackers and modern society.