Amnesia
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780385352789; 9780385352772
Subjects: Computer viruses; Young women; Journalists; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Fiction
Description: When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia's prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons, the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as "our sole remaining left-wing journalist," is determined to write Gaby's biography in order to find the answers--to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby--on the run, scared, confused, and angry--to cooperate?
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