Killer App

by Martin Schecter

Corporate greed and high-tech hijinks are the order of the day in this enthralling new novel from Martin Schecter. Set in New York City's Silicon Alley in the mid-90s -- heyday of the so-called Internet Revolution -- Killer App unfolds as a morality play for the generation of twenty-somethings who live, work, eat, sleep and breathe the internet.With a little something for everyone, Killer App captures the flavor of the internet coffee houses, the 24/7 work ethic, and social dysfunction of the group that would become some of the richest and most powerful people in corporate America. Rife with hostile takeovers, postgrad geek-speak, and nerd romance, this is a novel that is also richly textured and engaging. The atmosphere of 1990s Manhattan is thick enough to cut with a silicon-wafer knife, and the characters are deeply drown and far more intimately portrayed than as mere high-tech drones.

300 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 1999