| Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues Contributor(s): Dakan, Rick (Author) |
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ISBN: 160486088X ISBN-13: 9781604860887 Publisher: PM Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of technopirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame designer in Silicon Valley ask for? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009901383 |
| Series: PM Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 4.96" W x 7.95" (0.65 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What do you call 1000 hackers assembled into one hotel for the weekend? A menace to society? Trouble waiting to happen? They call it a computer security conference, or really, a Hacker Con. A place for hackers, security experts, penetration testers, and tech geeks of all stripes to gather and discuss the latest hack, exploits, and gossip. For Paul, Chloe, and their Crew of con artist vigilantes, it's the perfect hunting ground for their most ambitious plans yet. After a year of undercover recruiting at hacker cons all over the country, Chloe and Paul have assembled a new Crew of elite hackers, driven anarchist activists, and seductive impersonators. Under the cover of one of the Washington DC's biggest and most prestigious hacker events, they're going up against power house lobbyists, black hat hackers, and even the U.S. Congress in order to take down their most challenging, and most deserving target yet. The stakes have never been higher for them, and who knows if their new recruits are up to the immense challenge of undermining "homeland security" for the greater good. Inspired by years of author Rick Dakan's research in the hacker community, Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues, opens a new, self-contained chapter in the techno-thriller series. |
