Clarke, Richard A

Explores the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and the fate of civilization.

Jimmy Foley, a New York detective on loan to the Intelligence Analysis Center, and Susan Connor, head of the organization's special projects unit, rush to find the source of a series of escalating terrorist attacks on U.S. and global technology networks that are threatening to cripple the world.

Analyzes the threat to U.S. national security of cyber war. Explains what cyber war is, how its weapons work, and how the nation is vulnerable to cyber attack. Discusses examples of how foreign cyber spies have hacked into the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's new fighter aircraft.