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A public relations job at a bank leads to troubleshooter Jack Lynch's latest case as he investigates the connection betwen the bank, a lottery, and a computer hacker who has placed a software bomb in the bank's computer system
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From Publishers Weekly
The computer virus nesting in a New Orleans bank data file chooses to surface at a particularly bad time, just as the institution is posed to bankroll the city's new lottery. A hacker demands $5 million before he will undo the nasty program, and the loss of all that loot--and, perhaps more significantly, the attendant scandal--could be a sizable headache. High stakes aside, the crime saves freelance PR consultant Jack Lynch's sorry behind. He's loveless, recently orphaned, drinking too much, two months late on the rent for his office and temporarily homeless. Hired to find the hacker, Lynch is soon awash in modems and murder. Then his first good suspect, a bank officer with unhealthy ties to a company aggressively courting the lotto biz, gets gunned down. There's no shortage of New Orleans atmosphere here; the author is especially unforgiving toward gullible tourists and inefficient restaurants with inflated reputations. Lynch is a troubled soul who deserves a little luck--maybe the girl moving into the apartment next door to his new digs will be his salvation. Womack, the author of Smash City , once again delivers an effective work, never too complex and not quite overburdened with woes for the ever-resilient Lynch.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A wormer, not a hacker, has broken into the mainframe at the First Interstate Bank of Louisiana and planted a program that will wipe out all the bank's files unless a ransom of $5 million is paid. Enter Jack Lynch, former public-relations director at First Interstate (Murphy's Fault, Smash Cut), who interrupts his new domestic arrangements--new office, new apartment, willing new neighbor (psychiatrist P.J. Campbell) across the hall--to go on the bank's tab hunting the electronic extortionist. No, he doesn't pick the perp out from the bank's faceless officers and minions in time to forestall the payoff, but once he finds the links between a bank VP and the crooked new Louisiana Lottery Commission, it's all over for the hapless wormer, and everybody else. A high-tech, low-tension case less interested in plot surprises- -or the mechanics of computer crime and detection--than in tired rehashes of Jack's earlier adventures. For fans and relatives only. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 031209390X
- ISBN 13 9780312093907
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages282
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