The Zenith Angle

[Sterling offers] great insights about the inner workings of  government, private industry and the threats that could disrupt the online world as we know it. The Zenith Angle mixes technology, politics, dry humor and suspense to provide a first-rate read.?
-Howard A. Schmidt, former CSO/Microsoft and former Cyber Security Advisor for the Bush Administration


Genre: Thriller

"Vibrates with fantastic in-jokes and insights . . . rockets along like a hijacked airliner heading straight at you, like a flash-worm compromising every unpatched Windows box on the net at once. Lots of books are called "thrillers" but very few are this thrilling." - Cory Doctorow

"A darkly comic fable of info-war, the black budget, uber-geek idealism and the politics of Homeland Insecurity. Sterling's grasp of the surfaces of contemporary reality is deftly prehensile; his understanding of what underlies those surfaces is both compelling and important." - William Gibson

"A Catch-22 for the slashdot generation: a wry, cynical, informed peek at the paranoid world of the post-9/11 cyberspookerati. Buy it, read it, be very afraid." - Charles Stross