Amnesia

Description:

When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia's prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons, the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as "our sole remaining left-wing journalist," is determined to write Gaby's biography in order to find the answers--to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby--on the run, scared, confused, and angry--to cooperate?

subjects: Computer viruses,  Journalists,  Fiction,  LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General,  Young women,  Literary,  Historical,  Technological,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Historical,  FICTION / Technological,  New York Times reviewed,  Young women, fiction,  Journalists, fiction,  Australia, fiction,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense,  Fiction, political,  Fiction, thrillers, technological,  Fiction, suspense,  Fiction, technological,  Science fiction,  Women journalists,  Cyberterrorism,  Foreign relations

Places: Australia,  United States