01-01-00: A Novel of the Millennium

ISBN: 9780312870584

作者: R·J·Pineiro

出版社: Forge

页数: 320

定价: $24.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

An unstoppable computer virus opens the door to an ancient Mayan prophecy as the clock ticks down to 2000.

At 1:01 A.M. Greenwich Mean Time on December 11th 1999， computer systems all around the globe freeze for twenty seconds， then return to normal. Susan Garnett， a senior analyst at the FBI's high-tech crime unit， scours the nation's networks for a virus that could have triggered the synchronized event. But her search yields only indecipherable code. The next day， nineteen days before the end of the millennium， at the exact same time， the freeze happens again--for nineteen seconds. The virus is counting down to the beginning of the new millennium， when the world's computers will be at their most vulnerable point in history.

Susan traces the virus's signal to its point of