Search - The Blue Nowhere

This was Jeffrey Deaver's second chance. He gets one more, because I didn't particularly enjoy this one either. Again with the continuity errors, and I felt in several cases he spent too much time developing characters that didn't stay in the plot. Also instead of leaving clues in the book that would have given us a chance to figure stuff out, he has his characters, at the end explain everything. They even took turns telling what happened, but none of their clues were listed in the book. A pretty unsatisfactory read, I felt no need to pause and reflect on the "clever" plot.

This book was awesome - Jeffery Deaver has still got it. I loved the whole thriller/technology blend. I really enjoy learning about computers and I'm addicted to thrillers, so I thought this was a great book!

This is a great techno-thriller. Computer hackers handbook with a real dangerous and scary story line. Loved it!

His code name is Phate a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computer, invades their lives and lures them to their death. Really good.

I enjoy all of Jeffrey Deaver's books. This one is a bit of departure. Does not fit in with any of his series. Still a good read.

This is a good read, but Deaver has written alot better books than this one.

This is a great mystery with a computer saavy twist.

If you like computers and the machine world, you love this book. I enjoyed finding out some things about computing I never knew.
Oh, yes, the story was great!

Great story involving hacking and crime. You don't figure out the mystery until the last chapter.

This is the first Deaver novel I've read, but it certainly won't be the last. It's fast-paced, and not cluttered with unnecessary characters. An entertaining thriller that's hard to put down.

An engrossing thriller for the electronic age, packed with action, surprises, and adventure. Deaver's killer reaches inside his victims' minds, learns their deepest fears and vulnerabilities, and uses that knowledge to gain access to them. Phate is a techno-genius who has devised a method of invading individual computers and gaining admittance to all the files stored there, including e-mail. Worse, he is gaining "access" to his victims before he kills in what to him is just a real-world virtual-reality game. Faced with an electronics sociopath, the California State Police Computer Crimes Division "borrows" a jailed hacker to help them follow the complex electronic trail of the perpetrator. Wyatt, still facing a year of his prison sentence for ostensibly cracking a Defense Department code, is more than happy to be back online and on the trail of the killer hacker or "kracker." Readers are led to wonder if Wyatt, along with a number of the other characters, is what he appears to be. Besides being an engrossing mystery with lots of interesting characters, The Blue Nowhere is an absorbing history lesson about the Internet, a dictionary of computer terminology, and a compelling, if frightening, description of what is possible, and maybe probable, in our electronically based future.

Very fast reading from Deaver. I had the book on my self for a few years and was glad I finally read it. It gave me an insight into The hacker's world" on computer.Very detailed,likeable characters, and kept me very engaged. I would recommend it highly.

This was my first read by this author but it won't be my last! Enjoyed the pace, the characters (not developed too much but enough for the storyline), and the subject (computers - I don't know how accurate the info given was but it was presented in a plausible manner). Now where are those other Jeffery Deaver books . . .

Deaver's cyber thriller.

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. Desperate to stop him, the California State Police Computer Crimes Unit frees former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid the investigation. As the obsessive Gillette fervently attempts to trace the hacker's insidious computer virus back to its source, Phate delivers a huge blow-murdering one of the division's own. Now, teamed with old-school homicide detective Frank Bishop, Gillette must combine their disparate talents to catch a brilliant and merciless killer.

A sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates peoples computers, invades their lives and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. An imprisioned hacker is released to help find the killer. Very chilling indeed.

computer hacker infiltrates computers, lures people to their deaths. Calif State Police Computer Crimes Unit must stop him, a thriller

The cover is a little riped.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
"When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and - with chilling precision - lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself anew - by taking his methodology to a higher level, with bigger targets." "Desperate, the head of The California State Police Computer Crimes Division frees Wyatt Gillette, imprisoned for hacking, to aid the investigation - against the loud protests of the rest of the division. With an obsession emblematic of hackers, Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phate's insidious computer virus back to its source. Then Phate delivers a huge blow, murdering one of the division's own - a "wizard" who had pioneered the Internet - and the search takes on a zealous intensity; Gillette and Detective Frank Bishop, an old-school homicide cop who's accustomed to forensic sleuthing, at first make an uneasy team. But with a merciless and brilliant killer like Phate in their crosshairs, and his twisted game reaching a fever pitch, they must utilize every ounce of their disparate talents to stop him."--BOOK JACKET.

Usual great Deaver read . . .

my favorite Deaver book. fast paced and interesting.set in today's world of computers and hackers, you'll love it.