Death by Fire

By Chris Davis

Cyber-thriller based on what could be tomorrow's headlines -- Could a computer virus start World War III?-- Stylish cyber-thriller which picks up where Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, and Michael Crichton leave off.-- Based on recently declassified Pentagon reports showing how a savvy terrorist could hack into the Pentagon's command and control system and crash our state-of-the-art military just as the U.S. comes under attack.A scary ride down the information superhighway. Telephone switching networks collapse; spy satellites go off-line, and parallel processors in nuclear subs go haywire while the authorities desperately search for one man whose mission is to begin World War III. Information from declassified reports from the Air Force, Navy, FBI, Brookings Institution, the Rand Corp., the Naval War College, and the Department of Defense were used to develop the book's plot.The plot of this book is just crazy enough to compute -- Laura Hockaday Kansas City StarThe perfect 'cyber-thriller'. -- Charles Ferruzza The Sun Newspapers...a Clancy-esque tour de force of what readers will demand in all future suspense novels...a must-read for those who enjoy a non-stop, full-tilt 'page turner.' I...eagerly await future efforts. -- Walt Brown, Author People v. Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK Assassination Quizbook

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096444447X
• ISBN13: 9780964444478
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Bz Books
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.3" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent blend of Techno-facts and fiction

"Death by Fire" breathes new life into the Techno-Political-Thriller genre which found itself starving for a good "enemy" after the end of the Cold War. Chris Davis has pinpoints THE new threat to U.S. National Security in the 21st Century: America's own vulnerable reliance on Information Technology. Using the (still) current geo-political situation with Iraq's Saddam Hussien as a catalyst, Davis builds a very convincing and entertaining plot centered on the U.S. Defense establishment loosing complete control of its Command, Control, and Communications through little more than a renegade computer specialist and an expert terrorist. Fast paced, a bit abrupt, but very effective.