The blue nowhere
A Novel
by Jeffery Deaver · first published 2001
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A sadistic computer hacker infiltrates people's computers and lures them to their deaths. The California State Police Computer Crimes Unit frees former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid in their investigation. As Gillette attempts to trace the hacker's insidious computer virus to its source, one of the division's own is murdered. Teamed with homicide detective Frank Bishop, Gillette must combine their talents to catch a killer. His code name is Phate -- a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. To s
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I am surprised that the book [“The Blue Nowhere” by Jeffery Deaver](https://terebrate.blogspot.com/2012/11/book-review-blue-nowh...) hasn’t been noted as one of the plot points explores the machine human interaction like this. Neat read BTW.
on “Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data” ↗The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver. I read it at least once a year and live my life by it. There was no book that better described living in the digital world vs the physical world when I was growing up programming and…
on “Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?” ↗What are some of the best hacker\tech geek books, people have read? The Blue Nowhere is one of my all time favorites!
on “Ask HN: Best Fiction Hacker Books?” ↗There's a terrible/great genre thriller by Jeffery Deaver called 'The Blue Nowhere'. Whoever ghost wrote it seems to have set themselves the goal of using every word from the jargon file. Unintentionally hilarious.
on “The Hacker's Dictionary” ↗