Communication satellites fail due to massive data intrusions and ex-hacker Paul Trimble finds immovable data intrusions in his computer, in the computers of US military and spy satellites and in computers at the Deep Space Network. A very sophisticated denial-of-service attack threatens US military power and chaos is imminent. A Task Force is set up to locate the source and stop the intrusions but they find that the intrusions use tricometric coding far in advance of any known system and have accessed our digital world through the open back doors of our commsats. Dr Avril Stone proves that the intrusions originate in deep space and are a digital form of DNA, indicating extra-terrestrial intelligence. John Craig confirms that this intelligence is based on a triple string DNA with self-replicating capabilities. The Taskforce cannot stop it and the US defence system is powerless. Chaos is imminent.
The Tall Man referred to in the title is Osama bin Laden, a man who is unlikely to remain in the area where he is being sought, in Central Asia. The story reveals that he may in fact be in a very unlikely, very ordinary place doing very unlikely, very ordinary things. Or are they so ordinary? Is he still the leader of Al Qaeda? Have his methods and strategies been taken over by splinter groups mirroring Al Qaeda? Or has he established the perfect cover for an operation that could ruin the US economy? The USA's Homeland Security sends Agent Katja Monney into Afghanistan to uncover the truth. When Monney and her partner Jean Rosset, who knows nothing of her real operations, discover a terrorist plan to ship a 'dirty' nuclear device to New York, the Agency sends in their Special Forces to capture the man they think is Osama bin Laden ... with unexpected and extremely threatening consequences.
In Australia's Outback, project manager Rosset's vehicle is hijacked by wild-pig hunters and he is left without food or water in isolated bush country. Determined to get his vehicle back he sets out on foot to find the hunters and encounters a strange white light that seems to float through the bush. Mystified but sensing that it will lead him towards his goal the light leads him to water and eventually the hunters who are after a very large wild-boar, a Razorback. Confronted by the hunters a flash flood caused by heavy wet-season rains in the east in catches them all by surprise but Rosset and the Razorback find refuge ... the hunters however are caught by the rushing waters and in a final burst of frenzy one of them attacks Rosset. Aborigines believe that Beings from the "Dreamtime" inhabit the Outback which still retains the footprints and presence, the shadow, of these 'beings' which in this story play a role that is as unlikely as it is possible.
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