S. Andrew Swann - Zimmerman's Algorithm

The Theft
It began on a deserted interstate in Virgina.The entire operation took less than twelve minutes. The result - one supercomputer hijacked, one highway patrolman dead...

The Sting
Washington, DC, Police Detective Gideon Malcolm had been given a tip about the stolen Daedalus supercomputer. Yet no one was willing to give him the backup he needed to check it out.
So Gideon turned to the one person he knew he could count on, his brother, FBI Agent Raphael Malcolm.
Together they set up their stakeout. When no one showed, they went in to check out the seemingly abandoned warehouse - and stumbled into the midst of a deadly ambush...

The Payback
Now Gideon wanted answers, and he wasn't going to stop until someone paid for what happened to him and Rafe.
But the powers that be were equally determined to force Gideon - and the world - to forget this covert operation gone totally wrong.
Yet Gideon refused to be blackmailed, threatened, or bought off. And what began with a stolen computer led him to the trail of a mysterious woman, Dr. Zimmerman, whom everyone seemed intent on finding. For Zimmerman's knowledge could compromise not only U. S. security but that of every nation in the world.

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After detective Gideon Malcolm lost his brother, FBI Agent Rafe Malcolm, in a major screw-up caused by the Secret Service he's determined to find out why his brother was shot. Barred of information about the ongoing investigations he follows the only lead he's got: Lionel, a small light selling drugs on the streets but Lionel is shot, other leads are shot as soon as he finds them, helping hands are killed and what's left is a blank business card with a red sign on it: The Aleph, the sign of infinity.

Searching for the truth he's chased by the NSA, Israelis and an obscure cult calling themselves the New Pythagorean Order, led by Dr. Julia Zimmerman, a mathematical genius, driven to find God in algorithms, gathering the computational equivalent of the atomic bomb for other forces.

A self developed entity spread in million programs in million computer systems the Deadalus is supposed to bring the entity together.

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I don't say the book is a waste of time but I clearly missed any excitement. The author, not very eloquent in wording, bombards the reader over pages with highly mathematical phrases which bored the heck out of me. I couldn't find much highlights either but clearly liked the whole idea of the book.

Rating:
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: DAW (January 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0886778654
ISBN-13: 978-0886778651