Broken Genius
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4.3 • 24 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In 2011, Will Parker, the young prodigy CEO of a big tech company, makes a coding mistake that costs a college student her life. To assuage his guilt, Will pursues a career in the FBI Cyber Division. Now, Special Agent Will Parker is called to investigate a murder scene at a Comic Con event in the Midwest, where the victim has ties to a radioactive quantum computer that Will was working on before he left his gig as CEO. Working with smart local homicide detective Dana Lopez and FBI stuffed-shirt Thomas Decker, Will discovers the victim was holding an auction for the computer on the Dark Web—and the bidding is still live. With bidders including a legendary Chinese hacker, Russian criminals sent by the Kremlin, and a corporate executive desperate to escape a scandal, Will once again finds a life in his hands when the victim's daughter is taken hostage. A trail of blood and high-tech breadcrumbs leads Will deeper into mystery, danger, and a race against time to keep unlimited power out of the wrong hands.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Murray's competent debut, a series launch, introduces Will Parker, who left his job as the CEO of a fabulously successful tech company to become a special agent in the FBI's Cyber division out of guilt for an error Will made in a coding program that led indirectly to the murder of a kidnapped co-ed. A case takes Will to Indiana, where Roger Caplan, a vendor at a local comic convention, has been murdered; traces of radioactivity that match "the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident" were found in Caplan's hotel room. The trail leads Will to a Dark Net auction of the Fukushima Unicorn, a portable quantum computer that has the potential to change the world for good or ill. Will and his cohorts as well as his adversaries, who include "the most skilled and prolific hacker in Asia," are soon racing through crowds of cosplayers and Star Trek fans to gain control of the quantum computer. Fortunately for Will, no one else is nearly as smart, fit, or as quick-witted as he is. Computer geeks will look forward to Will's further adventures.
