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Booklist Gives Zero Day a Glowing Review

March 9, 2011 | post a comment | Mark Russinovich

Booklist Gives Zero Day a Glowing Review

I'm proud and flattered to announce that Booklist, the review journal of the American Library Association, has just published a fantastic review of Zero Day:

The horror of cyberterrorism explodes on the page in Russinovich’s first novel. A plane over the Atlantic suddenly needs to reboot its computer to stay in the air, and the pilots barely avert disaster. A hospital network mixes up patient information, resulting in the death of several people. A law firm, which has lost all of its clients' data and can’t get its system running again, turns to Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst and computer expert. He discovers that all of the crashes are insidiously connected, and an even greater disaster is coming. Computer technospeak is handled with ease by Russinovich, who makes the jargon understandable for nongeeks but does so without losing authenticity. His background at Microsoft ensures that he knows what he’s writing about, but, equally important, he constructs a gripping narrative. A terrifying tale made all the more frightening by our concern that it could offers a glimpse into the future, Russinovich’s thriller just could become one of those books that prompts a real-world response, in this case a wake-up call for greater cybersecurity methods. –Jeff Ayers

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