Reaper

Ben Mezrich

Summary

From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich, a fast-paced techno-thriller about a biological virus that spreads electronically. 
In Boston, nine 
lawyers on a conference call suddenly convulse with pain, turn chalk white, and 
die. In Vermont, a young woman watching her favorite sitcom meets the same 
grisly fate, as does a group of sewer workers in Washington, D.C. Whatever has 
killed these people is spreading fast, and the task of eradicating it falls to 
young virologist Samantha Craig and paramedic Nick Barnes, whose brilliant 
surgical career was ruined by a crippling hand injury.  
When Nick and 
Samantha discover that the virus, named Reaper, is spread through TVs and PCs, 
they realize that the information superhighway will become a killing field, 
with tens of millions dead, unless they can root Reaper out.  
Their search 
employs a dazzling array of real-life wizardry, from Mylar body paint to 
Stealth helicopters to CIA-bred swarms of insects. At the core of Reaper’s 
madness, they find a suavely megalomaniacal, up-from-the-slums, high-tech 
billionaire, an icily ingenious hacker, and a high-powered cabal that will do 
anything to save the world from technology, even if that means annihilating the 
world.

Duration: about 3 hours (02:48:22)
Publishing date: 2006-02-07; Abridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —