hackoff.com: An Historic Murder Mystery set in the Internet Bubble and Rubble - Hardcover

Evslin, Tom

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9780977464609: hackoff.com: An Historic Murder Mystery set in the Internet Bubble and Rubble

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ISBN 10: 0977464601 ISBN 13: 9780977464609

Publisher: dotHill press, 2006

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CEO Larry Lazard served time in prison for hacking through bank security systems and liberating credit card numbers. He parleyed this conviction into an online security consulting business, which became hackoff.com. Larry takes his company public and its stock price soars and collapses. Sex, power, money, farce, and tragedy mix in boardrooms and bedrooms. This book is a cleverly crafted "whodunit" with growing suspense until the last page is turned.

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From the Author:

People who’ve read the online edition of hackoff.com ask me how much of it is true.

I was the founder and CEO of a company that went public during the first Internet bubble. I did watch our stock inexplicably soar and tumble. I was amazed and amused to be a participant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And 9/11 changed me as it changed so many other people.

But hackoff.com is not autobiography. It starts with a dead CEO and I’m still alive to tell the story. There never was a company called hackoff.com; you never could trade HOFC stock. As far as I know, the hacks in the book never happened in real life (although you can never be sure). Other than historical characters and the people identified in the excellent report of the 9/11 Commission, the people in the book are figments of my imagination.

I wrote hackoff.com as a novel because fiction allows me to leave out the dull parts and exaggerate what I found interesting. It’s in the form of an historical murder mystery both because I like to read historical murder mysteries and because the form allows me to make the already fading fabric of those strange times part of the plot.

This is a story told more to amuse and entertain than to inform. As in the tales of retired sea captains, some of the monsters are real; some just things which might have gone bump in the dark.

-Tom Evslin

About the Author:

Like Larry Lazard, the fictional CEO of Hackoff.com, Tom Evslin founded a company during the dotcom era, took it public, saw the company’s stock soar and plunge, and fought a hostile takeover. Besides being a serial CEO, an inventor with five granted patents, a licensed pilot, a failed candidate for the United States Senate, and the former Transportation of Secretary of the State of Vermont, Evslin is well-known to web cognoscenti who enjoy his war stories about the Internet bubble and years before and after on blog.tomevslin.com.

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