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Shift Delete
Once you’ve pushed the button – there’s no turning back. For Elliot Parovsky, Director of the US Government’s Department of Cyber Activity, there are only three motivations in his work, sex, and the continuous harassment of his university-days nemesis, Darrel Lippnow. Thousands of miles away, Russia is invading Estonia, supposedly to restore the rights of its Russian-speaking minority population. The Estonians, feeling betrayed by the US government, launch a cyber-attack on the U.S. State Department. As Parovsky frantically investigates the attack while at a cyber conference in Russia, he begins to understand just how dire the consequences of his actions can be. While illegally spying on Lippnow, he unveils a well-kept government secret which has the potential to turn him into an easy target and put many lives in danger. Will he manage to prevent the disaster?
288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2021
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June 13, 2021
‘Like any good thief, the cyber-attacker had thoroughly cased the joint’ – exceptional novel!
Israeli author Gary L. Rashba earned his degree form the University of Pennsylvania ad has written many articles on defense, aerospace and international topics published in Veterans of Foreign Wars, the International Herald Tribune newspaper, and on the internet. His induction into the Israel Defense Forces (as the only native-born American in a unit of Russian immigrants) initiated his writing novels such as SHIFT DEFENSE. His initial book was HOLY WARS: 3000 Years of Battle in the Holy Land. SHIFT DELETE is a posthumous novel, written just before the author’s death from cancer in 2016, and now published by his widow Sigal Rashba.
Encountering a technothriller novel of this class is a complete pleasure. For a ‘debut’ novel’ this is all the more amazing. Rashba knew the essential requirements of a story that blends the interstices of technology with political and intelligence meanderings and he handled the result well.
Setting the tone, the book opens with the following – ‘Is nothing sacred anymore? Elliot Parovsky thought to himself, shaking his head in disbelief as he looked at the email he received form Loretta in Intelligence. Not that his participation in the Moscow cyber conference was a secret, but the conference program had been released only yesterday, and only to registered conference participants. The speed and reach of information never ceased to amaze him, and he lived at the forefront of this stuff. Yet here he was, his name already emblazoned in a hacker forum for all to see and begin scheming. Mr. Elliot Parvosky , Director, National Computer Incident Response Team of the US Government’s Department of Cyber Activity, will be speaking at the Kostrinsky Labs Cyber Security Conference in Moscow.’
With that defined introduction to the principal character, the story unwinds as follows: ‘Once you’ve pushed the button – there’s no turning back. For Elliot Parovsky, Director of the US Government’s Department of Cyber Activity, there are only three motivations in life: his work, sex, and the continuous harassment of his university-days nemesis, Darrel Lippnow. Thousands of miles away, Russia is invading Estonia, supposedly to restore the rights of its Russian-speaking minority population. The Estonians, feeling betrayed by the US government, launch a cyber-attack on the U.S. State Department. As Parovsky frantically investigates the attack while at a cyber conference in Russia, he begins to understand just how dire the consequences of his actions can be. While illegally spying on Lippnow, he unveils a well-kept government secret which has the potential to turn him into an easy target and put many lives in danger. Will he manage to prevent the disaster?’
Fast paced, tense, and written with great style, this is a book to devour and share. Though the story is fiction, there are aspects that deserve our attention – and action!
Israeli author Gary L. Rashba earned his degree form the University of Pennsylvania ad has written many articles on defense, aerospace and international topics published in Veterans of Foreign Wars, the International Herald Tribune newspaper, and on the internet. His induction into the Israel Defense Forces (as the only native-born American in a unit of Russian immigrants) initiated his writing novels such as SHIFT DEFENSE. His initial book was HOLY WARS: 3000 Years of Battle in the Holy Land. SHIFT DELETE is a posthumous novel, written just before the author’s death from cancer in 2016, and now published by his widow Sigal Rashba.
Encountering a technothriller novel of this class is a complete pleasure. For a ‘debut’ novel’ this is all the more amazing. Rashba knew the essential requirements of a story that blends the interstices of technology with political and intelligence meanderings and he handled the result well.
Setting the tone, the book opens with the following – ‘Is nothing sacred anymore? Elliot Parovsky thought to himself, shaking his head in disbelief as he looked at the email he received form Loretta in Intelligence. Not that his participation in the Moscow cyber conference was a secret, but the conference program had been released only yesterday, and only to registered conference participants. The speed and reach of information never ceased to amaze him, and he lived at the forefront of this stuff. Yet here he was, his name already emblazoned in a hacker forum for all to see and begin scheming. Mr. Elliot Parvosky , Director, National Computer Incident Response Team of the US Government’s Department of Cyber Activity, will be speaking at the Kostrinsky Labs Cyber Security Conference in Moscow.’
With that defined introduction to the principal character, the story unwinds as follows: ‘Once you’ve pushed the button – there’s no turning back. For Elliot Parovsky, Director of the US Government’s Department of Cyber Activity, there are only three motivations in life: his work, sex, and the continuous harassment of his university-days nemesis, Darrel Lippnow. Thousands of miles away, Russia is invading Estonia, supposedly to restore the rights of its Russian-speaking minority population. The Estonians, feeling betrayed by the US government, launch a cyber-attack on the U.S. State Department. As Parovsky frantically investigates the attack while at a cyber conference in Russia, he begins to understand just how dire the consequences of his actions can be. While illegally spying on Lippnow, he unveils a well-kept government secret which has the potential to turn him into an easy target and put many lives in danger. Will he manage to prevent the disaster?’
Fast paced, tense, and written with great style, this is a book to devour and share. Though the story is fiction, there are aspects that deserve our attention – and action!
September 1, 2022
Not what I expected. As a cyber security consultant, I didn't have high hope from a technical perspective.. The book impressed me with the authors ability to discuss genuine security issues, without boring you to tears. Although not a long read. This took me quite a while to get through the book as it just couldn't hold my attention long enough to make real progress. I was able to finally finish "Shift Deleted compliments of a travel delay. The ending shocked me, I will leave it at that. I don't think this will go on my re-read shelf, but its not on my " why did I even bother list either".
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