I've been a bit reticent about this book, not being a huge fan of cyber-thrillers, but I'm really pleased I picked up this book now. Particularly with the current stories flying around about mining company computer systems being hacked - interesting to say the least.
From the Blurb:
There were no guns, no missiles, no vapour trails stretching like accusing fingers across the skies, none of the obliterating explosions and sudden bursts of darkness you would expect. Not even a scream. There was nothing, save for the tentative striking of keys on a cheap keyboard. Yet make no mistake: this was warfare and it would bring the world to the edge of damnation....
Opening Lines:
Arnie Edwards was no common or garden adulterer. He'd recently celebrated his silver wedding anniversary and was no longer in the prime of his manhood, but that left him with a sense of sexual urgency which screamed out for satisfaction.
Cyber-war. Not the sort that steals identities and raids bank accounts, but the kind that brings nations to their knees, switching off their energy lifelines, crippling financial markets, starving their leaders of authority, making populations panic.