Night Vision - Softcover

Munson, Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 152386205X ISBN 13: 9781523862054

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

He calls himself Cyberwolf. A legend among hackers, he prowls cyberspace, lurking in electronic shadows. Yet beneath his smooth, polite surface, his eerily evolved superintellect pulsates with a twisted, primitive lust to violate the ultimate taboo with the unlimited power of the computer networks. His object of desire is Susan Bradstreet, one of Hollywood's reigning stars. He knows everything about her—her heartaches, her bank balances, her unlisted phone number. As for Susan, Cyberwolf will give her the terror of her life and the role of her career: She will be his kidnap victim. And as he schemes to reap a dazzling fortune in ransom, he threatens to hold all who interfere—and the entire East Coast—hostage with one press of a single computer key. In this relentlessly suspenseful high-tech thriller, no one is safe from Cyberwolf—the ultimate electronic terrorist.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald Munson is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction. Raising the Dead was named a National Library Association Best Book in Science and Medicine, and Intervention and Reflection is the nation’s most widely used bioethics book. His novel Fan Mail received a starred review in Kirkus, was a best seller in German translation, and was produced as a radio play. His three previously published novels have been translated into various languages, including Japanese, Swedish, and Dutch. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Harvard University, as well as a Scholar in Residence at Harvard College’s Lowell House.

From Publishers Weekly:

In Fan Mail Munson cleverly integrated the use of electronic devices into a chilling thriller. His latest suspense tale, however, has few real chills, since it is sabotaged by a combination of lukewarm action scenes, a recycled plot and a generic villain. The antagonist in question is Tom Gibson, aka Cyberwolf, a computer hacker with an unfortunate attraction to dead bodies. He is also obsessed with actress Susan Bradstreet, who has suffered a nervous breakdown that brings her to the UCLA hospital where Cyberwolf's friend works. The doctor attending Susan is David Hightower, a former surgeon who has become a psychiatrist following a tragic accident. When Susan flies to a Boston psychiatric institute, Cyberwolf and friends follow, taking her and other patients hostage. Hightower pursues her, determined to stop the doomsday computer program initiated by Cyberwolf. With all the cerebral powers available to his main characters, Munson makes a puzzling choice: Cyberwolf and Hightower battle on a mostly physical level, an arena to which neither seems suited. Despite his electronic wizardry, Cyberwolf comes off as a garden-variety psycho, one so incompetent as to leave the novel few chances for suspense.
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About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 152386205X
• ISBN 13: 9781523862054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326