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Paul Bartusiak
Author, Illustrator
COOL JAZZ SPY

The Initial Attack...
Friday morning at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Terminal A is bustling as business travelers await their flights, anxious to return home for the weekend. All of a sudden, information on arrival and departure monitors becomes distorted; pixels seem to melt away from the screen. Airline computer systems crash. Even the building’s lights and HVAC system shut down. Crowds form around flight desks, but no one knows what is happening. When extra security suddenly moves in, confusion turns to fear. Just as panic reaches its peak, the malfunctions mysteriously stop. Airport infrastructure performs an autonomous reboot, and operations eventually return to normal.

The Greater Threat...
The United States Intelligence Community is later summoned to a top secret meeting of the utmost importance: DFW Airport was hit with a highly sophisticated cyber attack. The perpetrators remain a mystery, the motive unclear. Even more alarming, evidence suggests something bigger is coming.

...and World Order Hanging in the Balance!
Cyber experts, cryptologists, and data scientists feverishly combine their skills to try and prevent the ultimate cyber attack—one on the scale of a cyber nuclear bomb!

Reviews
CIA agent John Angstrom, the hero of Bartusiak’s chilling novel about a cyberterror attack, has had his life transformed by the relationship that has developed between him and an attractive Russian defector, Anna Czolski. But his romantic life is put on hold when various sectors of the U.S. come under attack from sophisticated malware that overwhelms all the defenses the government has put into place. Meanwhile, a shadowy figure, who may have some connection to Anna, is quietly embarking on a murderous campaign of terror, beginning with an operative who retired from the game decades before. Diagrams and footnotes add to the story’s credibility, but readers should be prepared for some technical jargon (“with fpxe installed on the network card, and after a subsequent reboot of the computer, fpxe causes the PC to boot off of the remote BIOS from a C&C server, thereby bypassing the valid BIOS of the computer”). (BookLife)
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