Wallace, James

An expose of Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates, from his days as a 13-year-old computer hacker to his present-day status as a billionaire CEO.

On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, ex-SEAL Coby MacKenzie is training a secret special-operations unit called Ghost Eagle 1, Team Kamehameha. On the team are Shane Waters, Will Bottoms, and Kalee Jourden. They are 16 years old. Also on the team are Eiji Ahana and Roby MacKenzie, ages 14 and 13. They were warned that they might face extreme danger. Now it?s here. Black Dragon agents have slipped onto Kauai to take possession of a stolen, high-value package. Team Kamehameha?s mission: intercept the package. If they fail, the Hawaiian Islands could be wiped off the face of the earth. Time is running out.

Draws from interviews with friends, colleagues, and competitors, as well as employees of Microsoft to provide the inside story of the efforts undertaken by Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates to respond to the challenge posed by the advent of the Internet and the developers of Netscape Navigator.

Chronicles the cofounder of Microsoft's rise in the computer industry and his achievements.