Business-Techno Thriller set in Silicon Valley at the Dawn of the Internet Age. The year is 1994, the dawn of the Internet Age, when companies from Silicon Valley to London are fighting to claim the billions to be made on the new information highway. Attending the Consumer Electronics Show, Peter Ellis, an aggressive investigative reporter fighting to reclaim his damaged reputation after being framed for rigging a story, learns that a skilled programmer known for cracking secure computer code has mysteriously disappeared. Peter's quest to find the missing programmer unwittingly pits him against a brilliant hacker and deranged killer with an agenda of his own. He's taking revenge against the man who ruined his life: computer industry luminary David Lockwood who is now poised to introduce a product that will change the Internet forever. As Peter is drawn into the deadly game of betrayal and murder, he is faced with losing everything he holds dear: his career, his one true love, and even his own life. Can he find the programmer's encoded disk, which the holds the key to the killer's identity, before his luck runs out?
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