Amnesia / Peter Carey.
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TextPublisher: Melbourne, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2015Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 376 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0143572695; 9780143572695Subject(s): Computer viruses | Cyberterrorism | Women journalists | Diplomatic relations | Computer viruses -- Fiction | Cyberterrorism -- Fiction | Computer viruses -- Fiction | Cyberterrorism -- Fiction | "The Nib" Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2015) | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Women journalists -- Fiction | Australia | United States | Australia | United States | Australia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Fiction | United States -- Foreign relations -- Australia -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Fiction. DDC classification: A823.3 LOC classification: PR9619.3.C36 | A83 2015Summary: When Gaby Ballieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten to pour out. Was this American intrusion a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's last serving left-wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part of the covert conflict between Australia and America, dating back to the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane in 1942, and has as its most outrageous act the coup of 1975. Funded by his property-developer mate Woody Townes, Felix is going to write Gaby's biography, to save her, and himself, and maybe his country. But how to get Gaby to co-operate? What role does her film-star mother have to play? And what, after all, does Woody really want?
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When Gaby Ballieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten to pour out. Was this American intrusion a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's last serving left-wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part of the covert conflict between Australia and America, dating back to the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane in 1942, and has as its most outrageous act the coup of 1975. Funded by his property-developer mate Woody Townes, Felix is going to write Gaby's biography, to save her, and himself, and maybe his country. But how to get Gaby to co-operate? What role does her film-star mother have to play? And what, after all, does Woody really want?
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