The Zenith Angle: A Novel

Gleeful, shrewd, speculative, cynical, closely observed … The Zenith Angle offers wisdom and solace, thrills and laughter. -The Washington Post

Compelling and important … A darkly comic fable of info-war, the black budget, uber-geek idealism, and the politics of Homeland Insecurity. -William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition

Pioneering computer wizard Derek Van Vandeveer has been living extra-large as a VP for a booming Internet company. But the September 11 attacks on America change everything. Recruited as the key member of an elite federal computer-security team, Van enters the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence community. His special genius is needed to debug the software glitch in America’s most crucial KH-13 satellite, capable of detecting terrorist hotbeds worldwide. But the problem is much deeper. Now Van must make the unlikely leap from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful ex-Special Forces commando, and root out an unknown enemy-one with access to a weapon of untold destructive power.

Great fun … A cyberthriller of 21st-century technologies [that] peeps wittily behind the national security scenes of a modern superpower. -New Scientist

A comedic thriller for the homeland security era. -Entertainment Weekly