First published 1996
Suze Figueroa gets the call every cop dreads. Her sister, a computer engineer, lies unconscious in a hospital bed after what looks like an accident. But the timing troubles Suze. Her sister had just stumbled onto a hidden database at SJR Systems before the incident occurred. Suze teams up with her patrol partner to dig deeper into what her sister discovered. Their investigation reveals a brilliant but ruthless programmer who has designed something far more dangerous than ordinary corporate espionage. The database connects to a vast network aimed at infiltrating and manipulating the world's most powerful institutions. As Suze follows the digital trail, she realizes her sister's accident was no coincidence. Someone wanted to silence her before she could expose the truth. Now Suze must navigate both the streets of Chicago and the treacherous world of high-tech crime to save her sister and stop a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of global power.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller, action, computer-science
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Chicago
Period: 21st-century
350 pages · Hardcover · Forge