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Rachel Schipul
Author of Forty-Two Blue
“The blue glow of the screen cast its fingers around the cramped, warehouse apartment, dimly illuminating the piles of programming books and hacker magazines that lay scattered across the table. He liked to work in the dark. Made him feel mysterious, even stealthy. As if peering at his victims from a physical cloak while walking through the shadows of the Web. Despite the late hour, the stifling heat was relentless, another summer night in Houston.
Charlie popped a tab of speed and crunched it between his teeth. The bitter dust of the pill caught in the beads of sweat on his lips, an acrid sting on his tongue, a precursor to the welcome flood of energy that was coming.
The time in the lower right of the screen read 2:33 a.m. His window of opportunity would soon close. A familiar surge of adrenaline spread through Charlie’s body as he entered the final keystrokes needed to access his personal Internet playground, a subtly linked set of unwitting hosts scattered throughout the world.
The cursor pulsed, beckoning, and he paused, fingers suspended just over the keyboard. Would anyone be watching? Charlie took a deep breath to slow his heart, fighting the effects of the speed, and forced his paranoia back under the surface. Eight hits so far. No indication that anyone was on their trail. Just get in and get out.”
And so the story begins.
A technology thriller, Forty-Two Blue invites you into the sinister world of online thievery and the real-life price these electronic villains will exact on anyone who stands in their way.