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1) The sentinel
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there's nothing pleasant about the place. In broad daylight, Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. 'It was four against one,' so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently...
2) Zero days
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Language
English
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Description
"Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer...
3) Hush-hush
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 56
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is settling in for some downtime in New York City when an anonymous enemy makes himself known. This nameless foe's threats hit close to home, and before Stone can retaliate, the fearsome messages turn into very real consequences. With the help of old friends--and a lovely new tech-savvy acquaintance--Stone sets out to unravel the fatal agenda. But as the web of adversaries expands, Stone realizes that no place is safe, and he'll...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A computer wiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone's e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.
Author
Series
Ben Porter volume 3
Publisher
Quadrant Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Ben Porter creates a formidable, off-the-books team tasked to hunt down and capture America's most-wanted terror suspect. Venturing far beyond the borders of the United States in search of his target, Ben uncovers clues that lead him not only toward his prey, but also deep inside an insidious, international plot-one that targets every person who is connected on-line ... including you."
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
To prevent global chaos, Net Force agent Kali Alcazar, a member of America's elite cyber-defense organization, leads a final strike against the world's most dangerous hacker, discovering too late that he has prepared a deadly trap for them all.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"The United States may seem safe from within but beyond its borders, a new enemy rises. An American ship has vanished. The president has tasked the new cyber-intelligence agency, Net Force, with finding out what happened to the vessel. But their investigation reveals a plan that could trigger a world war. Their only option is to strike first. Through the streets of New York, a secret city in Crimea and the depths of the South China Seas, Net Force...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Net Force (Adult series) volume 11
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The number one threat to our nation's security is in cyberspace. The new US president wants to tackle the urgent problem head-on and launches a top secret line of defense: Net Force. But before the organization can be announced, the country is hit by an unprecedented, two-pronged terror attack. Not yet empowered by Congress nor embraced by a dubious intelligence community, still untested, unproven and officially unnamed, Net Force's elite group of...
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain courage volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Hanson's special set of skills opened the door to a successful career as a professor of cybersecurity at a Michigan university, allowing her to put her criminal past behind her. When a long-ago partner in crime delivers a cryptic message about her father's tech company being under cyberattack, she heads for Montana to secure exposed assets, close security breaches, and hopefully save lives. Diplomatic Security Services special agent Alex...
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