Byte

THE CYBERWORLD IS ABOUT TO UNLEASH HELL UPON THE REAL WORLD -- AND ONLY ONE HACKER CAN STOP IT. Her friends call her "Roller" because of her wheelchair, but the witty, wise-cracking, pistol-packing agent is better known at the CIA as "the Veterinarian." She's the woman dispatched to cage big dogs and bring the bits and bytes to heel. When Roller's superiors discover the balance of power between the U.S. and Russia is about to run off the rails, she's called upon to head a cyber strike team and face off with her arch-nemesis, a female hacker from the depths of the Dark Net. There's $50 billion of oligarch money at play, bitcoins to intercept, and evidence of a surging cyberattack on the global infrastructure that could kill thousands. Some days it just doesn't pay to roll into work. BYTE spirals us into the underworld of cyber criminals who can make kings or break them - and shatter civilizations in a keystroke.

About the Author :
ERIC C. ANDERSON is a retired member of the US Intelligence Community who served tours of duty in Hawaii, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Washington, DC. A former academic, he taught at the University of Missouri, University of Maryland, the Air Force Academy and National Intelligence University. During his career he produced more than 600 articles for the President's Daily Brief, National Intelligence Council, International Security Advisory Board and the Department of Defense. A life-long sailor and motorcycle rider, he has spent endless hours on boats and put over 300,000 miles on a variety of Harley-Davidsons. Eric Anderson passed away on October 5, 2018. His vast literary contributions, from his fiction writing to his understanding of the complex intelligence and military challenges facing Western democracies, are incalculable.

Review :
Former intelligence officer Eric C. Anderson really hits his stride with "Byte," his third insider novel about geopolitical insanity and cataclysmic brinksmanship. In this caustic and brilliant narrative, Anderson takes us less than a decade into the future, where Chuck Schumer is President, Vladimir Putin is facing his own end-game, and the world is up for grabs by a coterie of oligarchs. In a mark of courage few modern writers possess, Anderson chooses as his protagonist a female, African American, wheelchair-bound, wise-cracking, pistol packing CIA cyber-warfare expert, and pulls it off without a hitch. This is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, from which readers will come away knowing more about cyber conflicts and crypto-currencies than they ever dreamed of, but they'll also be sleeping less well at night. "Byte" is not to be missed. --Steven Hartov, best-selling author of In the Company of Heroes