Blue Nowhere, Jeffery Deaver
Blue Nowhere, Jeffery Deaver
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Blue Nowhere

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/03/2012

Synopsis

Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop, delivers a masterful thriller about a psychotic computer hacker/killer. Set in Silicon Valley, full of stunning—and fact-based—technical details, The Blue Nowhere is Deaver for the 21st Century.

His code name is Phate—a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. To stop him, the authorities free imprisoned former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid the investigation. Teamed with old-school homicide detective Frank Bishop, Gillette must combine their disparate talents to catch a brilliant and merciless killer.

About Jeffery Deaver

Chicago born author, Jeffery Deaver, has been richly rewarded for his successful career as a an American mystery/crime writer, including being a three-time Ellery Queen Reader's Award winner, and several different newspaper best of lists around the world.

Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective is the main character in his most popular series of novels, such as The Broken Window. His time spent practicing law before he embarked on his writing career definitely gave him greater insight into the cases about which he writes.

He was writing about criminal hackers in his 2001 book, The Blue Nowhere. He also established a computer crime unit within the pages of the book. Several of his novels have been adapted for tv and movies. The most popular among them would be The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

Deaver was chosen to write an official James Bond novel, Carter Blanche, published on May 25, 2011, making him the second American author to participate in the series.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Barbara on 2009-04-20 18:09:13

Wyatt Gillette, hacker extraordinaire, is temporarily released from prison to help in a murder investigate with the California State Police Computer Crimes Unit CCU. Serial killer, Phate, is also a very gifted hacker who has left reality behind and is bringing a computer game to the real world. THe idea of the game is to kill as many people as possible in a weeks time. The only catch is that the people must be very secure and basically untouchable. As each kill is completed, the next victim must be harder to access. Wyatt, Frank Bishop homicide detective, and a small crew of CCU computer geeks, as well as, a few other detectives are working 24/7 to track and trace this brutal serial killer. Phate though totally nuts is a brilliant tactician. He feints one way false clues and strikes the other way. He has thir entire team stepping, fetching and tripping over their own feet. Simply spectacular! Jeffery Deaver has written a masterpiece along the lines of Dan Brown's [book:Digital Fortress11125] though the language is dummed down for us laymen. The intrigue is spellbinding which makes this book difficult to put down. The in depth computer speak hackers language bogs it down some but I found that this info isn't necessary to solving the mystery and skipped quite a bit of it. Great book.

Goodreads review by Jerod on July 02, 2012

Probably my favorite Jeffrey Deaver Novel.......more

Goodreads review by Laura on July 23, 2016

Deaver can spin a tale like no other! I'd forgotten how much I like his books. A crazy book about computer hackers & control they could have over people's lives. Excellent, edge of your seat read!......more

Goodreads review by John on August 21, 2021

This is not a bad cyber thriller. Even though it was written 20 years ago and floppy discs are now a thing of the past. A serial killer called Phate is playing s game which makes involves access. The police are helpless and enlist a hacker called Gillette who is released from prison to assist them.......more

Goodreads review by Simon on January 24, 2013

Originally published on my blog here in October 2002. Jeffrey Deaver may usually be a writer of traditional thrillers, but with The Blue Nowhere he joins the small group of authors who can convincingly depict the world of the computer hacker (Neal Stephenson and William Gibson being the best known of......more

Goodreads review by Leslynn on June 09, 2016

Even when it's not Lincoln Rhyme, it's a marvelous, captivating story!......more

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