Zero Day Baby is a high-speed, high-energy,
off-center plunge into the cyber-crime underbelly of a near-future
America a few degrees sideways from our own.
Eliot Nussbaum, the supervisor of a motley group of geek undercover
cops, has a complicated life, largely because two women have staked a
claim on him. One is an online stalker, the mysterious, inescapable
Delight. Who might be a woman, knows everything about him, sends him
programming that has helped his rise up in his law enforcement agency,
and has declared him her boyfriend. The other is Marshal Rocky Shore, a
tough and heavily armed rabid cougar of a woman who is not inclined to
take no for an answer.
Eliot is about to come up against the most dangerous cyber-criminal
in America: Vincent Silicano, known inside the Mob as the Silicon Don.
Silicano's empire seems impregnable and unstoppable, because buried deep
at its heart is his secret weapon, a strange young computer savant with
the sort of mind that comes along once in a century. A seriously
screwed-up creature who has nearly completed with the task Silicano has
set for her: the creation of a cloud-based artificial intelligence that
will put him in control of the entire planet's electronic
infrastructure. This construct, named Spot, will be omnipresent and
immortal once it is initiated.
Eliot has to stop this mother of all zero day attacks from
happening. Involved in stopping--or bringing on--what might just be the
end of the world are a failed scam artist, a software tycoon, a deadly
'situational adjuster', a brain-damaged TV host turned anti-computer
cult leader, several stoners, more cops, a deadly pair of hitters from
the West Coast, and proof that what people need most of all are more
love and electricity.
Zero Day Baby is
available in Kindle format at Amazon for $2.99
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