Transmission
By: Hari Kunzru.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Computer programmers -- Fiction; Computer viruses -- Fiction; Layoff systems -- Fiction; Sabotage -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Lonely and naive, Arjun Mehta spends his days as a lowly assistant virus-tester, pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine, until he gets laid off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers. In an act of desperation to keep his job, he releases a mischievous but destructive virus around the globe that has major unintended consequences. As world order unravels, so does Arjun's sanity, in a rollicking cataclysm that reaches Bollywood and, not so coincidentally, the glamorous star of Arjun's favorite Indian movie."--BOOK JACKET.