Breakpoint

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		Breakpoint
		Breakpoint

基本信息·出版社：Berkley; Reprint edition
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2007年12月
·ISBN：0425218635
·条形码：9780425218631
·版本：2007-12-04
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：断点

内容简介 Book Description
In Against All Enemies, Richard Clarke warned about how we were conducting the war against terror. In his bestselling first novel, The Scorpion's Gate, he demonstrated what could happen. And now, in Breakpoint, America's preeminent counterterrorism expert and #1 bestselling author shows us all what might come next.

The global village--an intricately intertwined network of technology that binds together the world's economies, governments, and communication systems. So large, so vital--and so fragile. Now a sophisticated group is seeking to "disconnect the globe"--destroying computer grids, communications satellites, Internet cable centers, biotech firms. Hard to do? If only that were so.

Quickly, a dedicated team of men and women assembles to try to track the group down, searching through right-wing militias and Russian organized crime, Jihadist terrorists and enemy nation-states. But the attacks are coming more swiftly now, and growing in destructiveness. Soon, they will reach the breakpoint--and then there may be nothing anybody can do.

In an exclusive video message for Amazon.com customers, Richard Clarke introduces his new novel, and explains why, as he says, "sometimes you can tell more truth through fiction":

Reviewers everywhere praised the suspense and pace of The Scorpion's Gate, the vivid depictions of war, espionage, and bureaucracy, but most of all they hailed its authenticity. "Unlike most novelists, the man has been there and done that," said The New York Times Book Review. "Some of us," added The Washington Post, "have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say." And we'd better hope they're listening now.

From Publishers Weekly
In a techno-thriller as timely as today's exploding Internet, counterterrorism expert Clarke and veteran actor Dean team up for an exciting and truly frightening audio experience. There are no artful metaphors or other writer's flourishes in this story—just a major download of insider info, which obviously comes from the author's impressive sources. Set in 2012, Breakpoint tells about a computer program called Living Software, designed to surge across the Internet, invent new software and clean up past mistakes on its own, without any human help. There's also a group called the Transhumanist Movement, where children with extraordinary new chromosomes are being grown. But somebody (the Russians? A business rival of the Movement's sponsor?) is blowing up Internet connections, destroying labs and killing scientists in an apparent attempt to derail the project. Dean guides listeners calmly and logically through this murky tangle, finally reaching an ending that will surprise and enlighten as well as scare their socks off.

From Booklist
In the year 2012, a clandestine team is sent to investigate the sabotage of U.S. cyberspace connections in remote outposts. The team: Susan Connor, a Harvard graduate and national security agent; Jimmy Foley, an NYPD detective; and Soxster, a wiseass computer hacker. Within days, terrorists destroy technology targets, disconnecting the U.S. from Internet communications; robotic personal assistants jump out of windows after having downloaded their owners' personal information onto the Internet; and military technology turns against its users in a secret desert military installation. The escalating attacks on American technology heighten political tensions and pressure on the president to react--but against whom? As high-powered American and European figures learn that the "Global Village is held together by a very few, fragile strands," suspicion turns to the Chinese. Connor, Foley, and Soxster race to find the villain before the U.S. goes to war against China. Clarke's second novel employs a dizzying array of characters and locales, from Boston to Beijing to the Bahamas. In the author notes, Clarke, a former national security advisor to four presidents, recalls his first novel, The Scorpion's Gate (2005), a futuristic look at oil and geopolitics that was not meant to be predictive but turned out to presage recent developments in the Persian Gulf region. By contrast, Clarke declares this novel is "meant to be predictive" about technology and the promise--or threat--to human genetics. That assertion will boost interest in this fast-paced and fascinating novel.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Vanessa Bush


Book Dimension
length: (cm)18.5 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.9

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