U.S. Naval Intelligence has used the genius
of two young criminal hackers-turned-clandestine military
computer experts to corral an intelligent entity floating in
cyberspace. Their objective is to harness the awesome power of
this entity (dubbed by the Navy as “Spearhead”) for cyber
warfare against Iran. By chance, an ordinary young musical
instrument salesman, Rod Ames, acquires Spearhead, who he
re-names Diana, resets its access code, and uses it for his own
self-enhancing purposes.
The Navy, of course, is very determined to
get Spearhead back. Their efforts to reacquire this cyber
spirit, however, are complicated by several factors. First, they
want no one to know about even the existence of
Spearhead, and their cyber war with Iran was very secret, and
Ames threatens to make the whole thing public if he is harmed in
any way. Then there’s the young man’s up-and-down love life, for
which Spearhead-Diana becomes a prime adviser. Finally there’s
the retail business war between Norris Pianos & Instruments and
Tucker Music, run by Gene Tucker, a demonic individual who will
stop at nothing—even murder—to best his hated rival.
Spearhead, meanwhile, has its own
needs to fulfill, regardless of any pain or suffering by humans.
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