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Mismatch
Two rogue FBI agents make a catastrophic error in judgment when they catch the nations #1 computer hacker and decide to rough him up to intimidate him into quitting his hobby. Percy Marsh is not easily intimidated, and what no one knowsnot even the FBIis that he has the power to shut down the entirety of Americas communication systems. Coldly seeking revenge for his abuse, Marsh enlists the aid of a phone phreaking associate known as The Kraut. What he doesnt know is that Viktor Lubov is a long-term Soviet sleeper, an agent-in-place seeking an opportunity to strike. Marsh provides it with his communication shutdown, and soon Lubov is planning to circumvent Marshs plan with a far more deadly plan of his own. He is going to tell his handlers in Moscow that America will soon be helpless to counterstrike after an all-out nuclear first strike. All he has to do is relay the message in the approved through a Soviet submarine playing cat-and-mouse with an American sub prowling off the California coastline. World War III is just a shutdown away!
356 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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About the author
Lloyd Pye
21 books32 followersBorn in 1946, Lloyd Pye is a native of Amite, Louisiana. He attended Tulane University in New Orleans, graduating in 1968 with a B.S. in Psychology. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army to become a Military Intelligence (M.I.) agent.
For 20 years Lloyd wrote fiction and scripts while studying aspects of alternative knowledge. Especially intrigued by Hominoids—bigfoot, sasquatch, abominable snowman, yeti—he felt they were the Earth’s only indigenous bipedal primates, leaving fossilized skeletons anthropologists labeled “pre” humans rather than “advanced” Miocene apes. Lloyd felt nothing about them was human, “pre” or otherwise. From Australopithecines through Neanderthals, they were upright walking primates, with physiological traits of primates and none of humans.
Lloyd realized that if Hominoids were real, their ancestors were being passed off as “pre” humans and modern humans could not have evolved on Earth. But he had no idea where we DID come from or how we got here. Then, in 1990, he discovered the work of Zecharia Sitchin and found a “front end” to the research he’d been doing. He realized his own work provided a plausible “back end” to Mr. Sitchin’s controversial theories. He believed he could fuse the two bodies of work to produce a book that would establish a middle ground in evolutionary theory.
Mostly by word of mouth, “Everything You Know Is Wrong—Book One: Human Origins” has sold nearly 40,000 copies. On TV, Lloyd has been featured on The Learning Channel ("Mystery of the Skulls"); Animal Planet ("Animal X"); EXTRA (best UFO segment of the 1990’s); London’s "Richard and Judy Show" (British equivalent of Oprah Winfrey); four times on "Your Turn" with Kathy Fountain on Fox TV's Ch. 13 in Tampa, Florida; "Naturally N’Awlins" with Frank Davis on WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans; and WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi (also CBS). He has given over 200 lectures in the U.S. and around the world (Brazil, Egypt, Netherlands, England, Australia).
Lloyd is an articulate, consistently engaging guest on television, and on radio shows like Coast to Coast and Jeff Rense. From the beginning of this part of his career, his verbal skills combined with a natural gift for platform presentations to vault him from obscurity in late 1997 to being well-established in alternative knowledge circles by late 1998. That reputation brought him to the attention of a Texas couple that had recently acquired a normal human skull and one that looked as if it could fit inside the head of a prototype “Grey” alien. The couple asked Lloyd to take the unusual skull and have it scientifically evaluated.
Thinking he knew something about science and scientists, Lloyd estimated the testing could be completed in six months. And it might have been. However, he soon learned that scientists protect their paradigms with every bit of the ferocity displayed by religious zealots when supporting “divine” causes. It’s been over EIGHT YEARS since the Starchild skull was made public, yet final results of its testing cannot be initiated until 2009 or 2010. For those interested in what it’s taken to get to that point, please visit www.starchildproject.com and find two slide shows available as Flash downloads. Both give vivid photographic evidence to support the assumption that the Starchild may well have been a human-alien hybrid.
For 20 years Lloyd wrote fiction and scripts while studying aspects of alternative knowledge. Especially intrigued by Hominoids—bigfoot, sasquatch, abominable snowman, yeti—he felt they were the Earth’s only indigenous bipedal primates, leaving fossilized skeletons anthropologists labeled “pre” humans rather than “advanced” Miocene apes. Lloyd felt nothing about them was human, “pre” or otherwise. From Australopithecines through Neanderthals, they were upright walking primates, with physiological traits of primates and none of humans.
Lloyd realized that if Hominoids were real, their ancestors were being passed off as “pre” humans and modern humans could not have evolved on Earth. But he had no idea where we DID come from or how we got here. Then, in 1990, he discovered the work of Zecharia Sitchin and found a “front end” to the research he’d been doing. He realized his own work provided a plausible “back end” to Mr. Sitchin’s controversial theories. He believed he could fuse the two bodies of work to produce a book that would establish a middle ground in evolutionary theory.
Mostly by word of mouth, “Everything You Know Is Wrong—Book One: Human Origins” has sold nearly 40,000 copies. On TV, Lloyd has been featured on The Learning Channel ("Mystery of the Skulls"); Animal Planet ("Animal X"); EXTRA (best UFO segment of the 1990’s); London’s "Richard and Judy Show" (British equivalent of Oprah Winfrey); four times on "Your Turn" with Kathy Fountain on Fox TV's Ch. 13 in Tampa, Florida; "Naturally N’Awlins" with Frank Davis on WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans; and WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi (also CBS). He has given over 200 lectures in the U.S. and around the world (Brazil, Egypt, Netherlands, England, Australia).
Lloyd is an articulate, consistently engaging guest on television, and on radio shows like Coast to Coast and Jeff Rense. From the beginning of this part of his career, his verbal skills combined with a natural gift for platform presentations to vault him from obscurity in late 1997 to being well-established in alternative knowledge circles by late 1998. That reputation brought him to the attention of a Texas couple that had recently acquired a normal human skull and one that looked as if it could fit inside the head of a prototype “Grey” alien. The couple asked Lloyd to take the unusual skull and have it scientifically evaluated.
Thinking he knew something about science and scientists, Lloyd estimated the testing could be completed in six months. And it might have been. However, he soon learned that scientists protect their paradigms with every bit of the ferocity displayed by religious zealots when supporting “divine” causes. It’s been over EIGHT YEARS since the Starchild skull was made public, yet final results of its testing cannot be initiated until 2009 or 2010. For those interested in what it’s taken to get to that point, please visit www.starchildproject.com and find two slide shows available as Flash downloads. Both give vivid photographic evidence to support the assumption that the Starchild may well have been a human-alien hybrid.
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September 9, 2017
I never thought I’d see the day when I would write phrases like do you ever get nearly nostalgic for the more innocent and seemingly simpler days of the cold war? Are we truly at a point when we can look on those days as more simple or even more innocent in some way? Perhaps I stretch that a bit, but if you think nostalgically of the days when there was a cold war before the breakup of Ma Bell, then this is surely your book.
Percy March is a phone phreak and a computer hacker of the first order. He can deftly manipulate phone lines throughout the world that enable him to make free calls to as long a distance as he chooses to call. He knows someday he[‘ll be caught, but when he is, he has a plan in place to get even—a plan that will shut down the nation’s entire communications infrastructure.
March’s phreaking has caught the attention of the FBI, and while they don’t have much on him, two rogue agents determine to slap him around a bit. March is a fat loaner hacker with no real friends. But he is still king—king of a vast network of interconnected fellow phone phreakers. They know him as “the king.”
Although the two have never met, the king’s second in command is a mysterious phreak known as Kraut. Kraut is, in reality, Victor Lubov, a KGB agent who hopes to cripple America by preventing it from communicating with its nuclear weaponry while the Soviets make a first strike.
This is a nail-biter of a book that will teach you much about the art of phone phreaking. I have no idea whether today’s technology has rendered phone phreaks extinct, but someone has to break those roaming barriers and avoid those charges, so perhaps there are still phreaks out there.
Before this ends, March is unable to reverse the chain of horror he starts, and a tiny cadre of people including Karen Glass, a reporter for a San Jose paper, is involved in finding a way to prevent the unthinkable. Kraut will succeed in bringing nuclear horror down on the United States if he can get a message to Moscow using a network of stealthy submarines prowling off the Oregon and California coasts. It becomes a pitched battle fought on the grid and under water, and if you ever were fascinated with old-school telephone technology, you may find this book a memorable read indeed.
Percy March is a phone phreak and a computer hacker of the first order. He can deftly manipulate phone lines throughout the world that enable him to make free calls to as long a distance as he chooses to call. He knows someday he[‘ll be caught, but when he is, he has a plan in place to get even—a plan that will shut down the nation’s entire communications infrastructure.
March’s phreaking has caught the attention of the FBI, and while they don’t have much on him, two rogue agents determine to slap him around a bit. March is a fat loaner hacker with no real friends. But he is still king—king of a vast network of interconnected fellow phone phreakers. They know him as “the king.”
Although the two have never met, the king’s second in command is a mysterious phreak known as Kraut. Kraut is, in reality, Victor Lubov, a KGB agent who hopes to cripple America by preventing it from communicating with its nuclear weaponry while the Soviets make a first strike.
This is a nail-biter of a book that will teach you much about the art of phone phreaking. I have no idea whether today’s technology has rendered phone phreaks extinct, but someone has to break those roaming barriers and avoid those charges, so perhaps there are still phreaks out there.
Before this ends, March is unable to reverse the chain of horror he starts, and a tiny cadre of people including Karen Glass, a reporter for a San Jose paper, is involved in finding a way to prevent the unthinkable. Kraut will succeed in bringing nuclear horror down on the United States if he can get a message to Moscow using a network of stealthy submarines prowling off the Oregon and California coasts. It becomes a pitched battle fought on the grid and under water, and if you ever were fascinated with old-school telephone technology, you may find this book a memorable read indeed.
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