Tracking hackers and crackers for the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center looks like a vivid video game to an outsider, but the outcome of the play is deadly serious. Through her online feline avatar, Sekhmet, Sue Anne Jones stalks the V-Net, the ultimate virtual-reality interface, in pursuit of evil in all its online forms. Her partner, ex-cracker Loren Hunter, provides cynical commentary along with his expertise in the V-Net’s shadier alleys. Their days of busting routine identity thieves and insidious corporate spies end when they get a new assignment: Hunt down a cyber-terrorist calling himself Gideon, who has infiltrated the financial system, rerouted supply lines, and murdered the supervisor of an automated factory. Now Gideon is sending taunting messages, quoting scripture, and warning Sue that she must join his crusade or suffer—along with the rest of the virtual world—when he takes total control of the V-Net. Written by the author of the Seventh Seal last-days adventure trilogy, Hunting Gideon is a near-future cyberpunk novel with an optimistic Mormon twist. Incorporating elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, and postmodernist prose, much of the novel’s action takes place online in cyberspace, blurring the border between actual and virtual reality. Hunting Gideon sends Sue and Loren on a wild chase as they scramble to avert the ultimate online disaster.
What starts as a glitch and an unfortunate, grisly discovery snowballs into a race to prevent Simon and his evil minions from hacking GeoNet's uncrackable security code and selling it. With the keys cracked wide open, evil forces-or at least very bad people-can not only gain access to the world's digital information but defeat its physical locks as well. NIPC's top cracker hounds, Sue Ann Jones and Loren Hunter, risk life, limb (and more than a few personal belongings) in pursuit-and protection!?-of more despicable V-Netizens than you can throw a cheetah at.
Jack Fey runs a business. For the right price, he and his shape-shifter associate Meleon will acquire any item: the Colonel's secret recipe, a priceless portrait of a long-dead queen, or an iron crown that gives its wearer the dark power to seduce and conquer the world--right before it eats his soul. Jack's got on-demand acquisition down to an art, or at least a science: 'Find thing, get thing, bring thing.' Easy! But now Cricket, the Magician Jack and Meleon brought in to help them defeat the horrific Guardians of the Iron Keep, is expressing concerns about the ethics of involuntary, facilitated property transfer. And a powerful wizard doesn't appreciate the importance of inter-species trust, and the fact that the principle of honoring contracts lies at the very foundation of all civilized society. Things are about to get complicated. Fortunately, Jack has a cunning plan for complicated situations: dodge the guards, grab the thing, and . . . RUN!"--Back cover.
Recently widowed, Katherine Chambers takes her young son to visit her husband's family when disaster strikes. The ship they are sailing on runs into a severe storm off Robin Hood's Bay on the Yorkshire Coast. Among the bodies on the beach, a survivor is found. Identified as Katherine from the engraving on the bracelet she wears on her wrist, she has no knowledge of who she is or where she is from. Dr Bennett, the local doctor in Robin Hood's Bay, is called in but though he can treat Katherine's cuts and physical ailments, there is little he can do to heal the gaps in her memory. Determined to save Katherine from being placed in an institution, he asks his spinster sister to take care of her until her family can be traced. But jealous of her brother's interest in Katherine, Amelia Bennett takes a cruel pleasure in her predicament. Until Katherine can remember her past, her future is far from certain . . .
Exploring Oxfordshire Surnames: People, Places and Lives is a volume of chapters written by experts and enthusiasts in several areas, providing different perspectives on the people and surnames of Oxfordshire.
Under Wraps is an all-church Advent experience that explores the character of God described in the Old Testament and then revealed through Jesus Christ. Through small group resources for all ages, teaching video, worship ideas and visuals, sermon lead-in videos, and preaching guides, all areas of church life weave together for an exciting, new Advent celebration. The adult study book is the centerpiece of the program, serving as the adult small group resource and the source of content for worship planners and leaders. Each week centers on a key word that describes a characteristic of God that is evidenced in the Old Testament and then seen more clearly through Jesus: faithful, dangerous, expectant and jealous. Additional material on the theme of "Joy" is provided for an optional Christmas week focus.
Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.
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