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| About the Book | |
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Right
wing leader of the Knights of America hate group Joey McMahon claims
he has proof of a secret Japanese plot to implant hardware mole programs
in supercomputer memory chips. Mole programs that would retarget nuclear
missile strikes on the United States. He wants to "go public" through
Justin Alexander, a young investigative journalist for Technology
Today Magazine. But before he can identify the source of his "proof chip," McMahon is brutally assassinated by a nisei radical at an anti-Japanese auto workers' rally in Detroit. And that's when Justin turns to his companion Dr. Katherine Angstrum for some answers. Katy is an expert in scanning electron microscopy and lithography and perhaps one of the few people on the planet who can tell if the "chip" is a fake or a submicron masterpiece of technical treachery. Her knowledge is also the reason a madman with an ancient grudge from World War II China wants her dead before she cracks the chip open and reads in its dense silicon hieroglyphics a truth older than racism itself.
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| About the Author | |
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Judge Schonfeld was on the UCLA artificial intelligence team that built the first computers that could read and speak. He has won the New York International Film and Video Festival Writer-Director Award three times for his films on the supercomputer industry. Second Sun Rising is his 4th novel. |