THE SYSTEM DENIED HIM. SO HE BECAME THE VIRUS.
Stanley Isenberg did everything right. A 64-year-old MIT graduate with honors, he spent forty years as a loyal programmer for the Vision Scope Tech Corporation. He played by the rules, saved his money, and placed a down payment on a quiet retirement in Arizona with his wife, Inger.
In one day, it was all erased.
A rogue faction of Anonymous wipes out his bank account, investment portfolio, and credit. When Stanley dares to fight back, they send a message beyond financial ruin: they remotely access Inger's iron lung and disable it.
The bank has no record of him. The police can't help. The FBI gives him a case number and tells him to "start over."
Driven by grief and stripped of his future, Stanley accesses I.R.I.S.—the International Robotic Intelligence System he secretly built to combat foreign cyber attacks. When she refuses him access, he activates a code buried for forty years.
Now the hunter has become the hacker. And when a man with nothing left to lose decides to burn it all down, the system doesn't just crash.
It screams.
