Amnesia
By: Peter Carey
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781926428604
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Computer viruses; Fiction; Science fiction; Women journalists; Cyberterrorism; Foreign relations
Description: When an internet virus throws open the gates at thousands of American prisons, the hacker turns out to be an unlikely young Australian woman. Has she declared cyber war on the United States or was her "Angel Worm" intended only to free the victims of Australia's immigration policies? Is she innocent? Can she be saved? The answers are up to law-suit-magnet journalist Felix Moore, a.k.a. Felix Moore-or-less-correct. His career is tanking when he gets this chance to write a biography that will vindicate the young woman. Funding is to be provided by an old friend--an outrageous millionaire property developer--and further impetus by an old flame: the young woman's actress mother whom Felix worshiped when they were at university together. And it will be our great good fortune to see the world through Felix's comic, cowardly, angry, yet fundamentally humane eyes as he attempts to save the young woman--and redeem himself in the bargain.