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. Gillette and Detective Frank Bishop - an old-school homicide cop who's accustomed to forensic sleuthing - make an uneasy team. 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. With an obsession emblematic of hackers, Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phate's insidious computer virus back to its source.

Also, as is revealed in the book, the phrase the blue nowhere has a second, significant, meaning to a central character in the story.

Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. The blue nowhere means the entire world of computers and our relationship with them from the Internet to how our lives have changed because of these miraculous machines. 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, and aiming at bigger targets.ĭesperate, 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. The Blue Nowhere By: Jeffery Deaver Narrated by: Tim Machin Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins 4.1 (10 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. 'A Small Death in Lisbon' by Robert Wilson (Berkley) TRADE PAPERBACKS. 'The Vendetta Defense' by Lisa Scottoline (HarperTorch) 15.

He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and lures them to their deaths. 'The Blue Nowhere'by Jeffery Deaver (Pocket) 14. When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. Jeffery Deaver, best-selling author of The Empty Chair and The Bone Collector, now turns to the labyrinthine world of cyberspace - a world where the most powerful can lose their wealth, their minds, their lives with a hacker's touch of a button.

The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver