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Sterling, Bruce

 
9780345460615: The Zenith Angle
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ISBN 10: 0345460618 ISBN 13: 9780345460615
Editorial: Del Rey, 2004

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In a tale by the author of Tomorrow Now, top cyber-security theorist Derek Vanderveer finds his life permanently disrupted by the events of September 11, after which he accepts a job with a new national security agency to determine who is attacking a top-secret U.S. satellite.

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Bruce Sterling is the author of nine novels, three of which were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. The Difference Engine, cowritten with William Gibson, was a national bestseller. He has also published three short-story collections and two nonfiction books. He has written for many magazines, including Newsweek, Fortune, Harper’s, Details, Whole Earth Review, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He has won two Hugo Awards for Best Novella. Sterling lives in Austin, Texas.

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Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America s escalating war on terror.

Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It s how nations and networks secretly battle, now and into the future. And for Derek Van Vandeveer, pioneering computer wizard, a new cyberwarrior career begins on the fateful date of September 11, 2001.

Happily married with a new baby, pulling down mind-blowing money as a VP of research and development for a booming Internet company, Van has been living extralarge. Then the devastating attacks on America change everything. And Van must decide if he s willing to use the talents that built his perfect world in order to defend it.

It s our networks versus their death cult, says the government operative who recruits Van as the key member of an ultraelite federal computer-security team. In a matter of days, Van has traded his cushy life inside the dot-com bubble for the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence community where rival agencies must grudgingly abandon decades of distrust and infighting to join forces against chilling new threats. Van s special genius is needed to make the country s defense systems hacker-proof. And if he makes headway there, he ll find himself troubleshooting ultrasecret spy satellites.

America s most powerful and crucial eye in the sky, the KH-13 satellite capable of detecting terrorist hotbeds worldwide with pinpoint accuracy is perilously close to becoming an orbiting billion-dollar boondoggle, unless Van can debug the glitch that s knocked it out of commission. Little does he suspect that the problem has nothing at all to do with software . . . and that what s really wrong with the KH-13 will force Van to make the unlikely leap from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful ex Special Forces commando, and root out an unknown enemy . . . one with access to an undreamed of weapon of untold destructive power.

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Editorial
Del Rey
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0345460618
ISBN 13 
9780345460615
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
306
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