Atlantic City is packed with tourists, but the holiday atmosphere is shot to pieces when an unarmed man turns into a human wrecking ball, tearing a casino apart with his bare hands and throwing cops around like rag dolls. In the end it takes two dozen 9mm rounds to put him down.
Suddenly it seems there's an incredible new designer drug on the streets - a drug that can give you unbelievable strength together with immunity from pain - and it's boing sold via the Net from addresses that are virtually impossible to track.
If Net Force can't break the producers' security and destroy the supply at source, the world could be in for an npidemic of violence that will be literally unstoppable...
When a top-secret cargo train carrying materials for Pakistan"s nuclear weapons programme is destroyed by mercenaries, it"s just the first of a series of incidents in which supposedly bullet-proof encrypted information is stolen and deciphered. Someone, it seems, has got hold of a functioning quantum computer- a computer so powerful it has the potential to develop a consciousness - and is using it to cause global mayhem. If Net Force don"t track the perpetrator down, his demented scheme could redraw the map of the world forever...
A brilliant portrayal of tomorrow"s technology with its awesome geopolitical implications, Tom Clancy"s Net Force is the beginning of a powerful new series from the world"s most exciting author.
