The Blue Nowhere - Jeffery Deaver

Lara Gibson is a self employed business woman in Silicon Valley and is 'the queen of urban protection' - she taught people how to look after themselves, how to be safe. Chapter one of the book brings about her death, by someone she thought she knew - a friend of a friend. As it turns out she was conned, a swift piece of 'social engineering' had turned this young stranger into someone she would trust and would walk to her death with. 'Phate' is a wizard, a hacker, a kracker. He has invented, along with the help of his anonymous friend 'Shawn', a piece of virtually untraceable software which allows him access to people's ...  Read the complete review

Like millions of others, I think of myself as a web person. I have at my fingertips nearly all the knowledge in the world, move through virtual playgrounds and visit distant friends with the touch of a key. But, oh! How I fool myself. I and most like me are stumbling on the edge of things. We ask permission to step on pathways, move through already opened doors and think we are adventurers. But there are superior, nay supreme, keyboarders who will not be led or directed. Those who create their own secret portals and hidden passageways and, with infinite resource, evade pursuit as they seek and explore. Travelling at the speed of light they expose ...  Read the complete review

Jeffrey Deaver is an author who has rapidly gained a following to challenge more established authors such as Thomas Harris, and Jonathan Kellerman. In this latest paperback release, he takes us into the nebulous and rather sinister Machine World. The Characters The main protagonists in this novel are a pair of wizards - brilliant computer experts, hackers at opposite ends of the 'art': Our hero, Wyatt languishes in jail when we first meet him, deprived of his liberty and of all access to his addiction, the world wide web or machine world as it's known in such circles. Unsurprisingly, he's serving a term for illegal access, download and erasing ...  Read the complete review

In the “blue nowhere”, the infinite reaches of cyberspace, the hacker is king. He can go where he likes, doing what he likes. He has total control. No computer is secure from his prying, no user is safe. If you are logged on, he is there with you, in the shadows, watching, waiting. You may not know he is there…not until he wants you to know. When a young woman is brutally murdered, the California police soon realise that there is a brilliant mind behind the crime…a mind that knows how to infiltrate and seize control of any computer…a sort of superhacker. They know too that he has crossed a boundary…he is using his skills now, ...  Read the complete review

What would you do when you met someone, you barely know but he knew just everything about you. He knew your name, knew where you lived, knew your friends and your family, even knew your love life and talked about things that not everybody knows. He claimed himself as your long lost friend and asked you for a cup of coffee in the cafe nearby, a place you know, would you trust this guy? If the answer was 'yes', then you took the wrong answer. The Blue Nowhere is a book about the hacker's life. A life that maybe, no one would ever imagine could be. The detailed explanation about what a hacker does in their own secret life and communities. The story of this book ...  Read the complete review