The Lucifer Key

by Malcolm MacPherson

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441504310
• ISBN13: 9780441504312
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 320 Pages

Customer Reviews

Spell bounding, captivating, thrilling.

I picked up this book, didn't sleep, eat, or anything until I finished the entire thing! Start's love of salt will change your diet forever.

Computer techno-thriller

If you consider yourself a decent computer programmer, you will probably identify with Start Rousseau, the hero of this novel (and you probably already identify yourself with Dilbert). This book is quite advanced for its age - it was published much before the the big-bang of Cyberspace. Well, here's this geek who is puts forth a theory - called the Key of Lucifer - about a potential weak link in the Defense Department computer networks - and demonstrates it when challenged. The Pentagon is outraged and wants his blood. So does the KGB - but they want his formula first.