Bounty
Subtitle: a novel
By: Michael Byrnes
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780804178341; 9780804178365
Subjects: Cyberterrorism; Hacktivism; Criminal investigation; Vigilantes; Fiction
Description: When a website begins putting lucrative bounties on the heads of global criminals who have evaded justice--including Wall Street power brokers, politicians, and unethical businesspeople--a group of elite U.S. government operatives, led by FBI special agent Roman Novak, seeks to shut down the site. But its creators remain elusive as the body count rises, and many people start to embrace the site's simple credo: "If the law should fail, let justice prevail". Novak and the government's most talented cryptanalysts struggle to find a way to bring down the site before it irrevocably changes the world. --

"Following a team of FBI agents striving to counter an untraceable web site and the elusive forces behind it, and tracking the real perils of cyber-saturation across the globe, this all-too-plausible topical thriller explores what happens when pervasive corruption, widespread public unrest, and the shattering of any last illusions of privacy clash in a perfect storm outside the rule of law"--Provided by publisher.