Mismatch

by Lloyd Pye

Book Overview

Two rogue FBI agents make a catastrophic error in judgment when they catch the nation's #1 computer hacker and decide to rough him up to intimidate him into quitting his "hobby." Percy Marsh is not... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595126146
• ISBN13: 9780595126149
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

One of the best hacker/phreking fictions out there

In Mismatch, Lloyd Pye adeptly tackles a subject that has been painfully abused in recent fictions. That is the technical suspense involved with Computer hacking and Phone phreaking. Movies from 'War Games' to 'The Net' and 'Hackers' have been annoying to watch in thier inaccurate portrait of how hacking occures and how it can affect the general population. Mismatch gives a realistic feel to its coverage of technology, and the persons involved with it. With acknoledgements to Naval Inteligence and John 'Cap'n Crunch' Drapper you know Pye has done his homework. The basic story is a Clancy-like military suspence involving the early days of the internet. Although there are a large number of characters, the most interesting are the lone hacker who intends to shut down a large part of the military network (ala Robert Morris) by a combination of hacking and phone-phreaking, and the telephone company tracker hunting him down. The great success of this book is Pye's ability to depict these characters believable. Many similar attempts have failed. If you are interested in reading a good technology thriller and not some Rave/HipHop portrayal of hacking as an arcade game, this is the book for you.