Amnesia Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804171327 ISBN-13: 9780804171328 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Thrillers - Technological |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 384 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny novel, two-time Booker winner Peter Carey takes us to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international politics. When Gaby Baillieux, Australia's most formidable hacker, releases the Angel Worm virus into her country's prison system, cell doors are opened and inmates walk free. Since those prisons use American software, the doors in thousands of jails in the United States are opened as well. Is this an accident--or a declaration of cyber war? Does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? |