Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction
Summary
The black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, former draft dodger
and successful marijuana smuggler Richard Forthrast amassed a
small fortune over the years—and then increased it a
thousandfold when he created T'Rain. A massive,
multibillion-dollar, multiplayer online role-playing game,
T'Rain now has millions of obsessed fans from the U.S. to
China. But a small group of ingenious Asian hackers has just
unleashed Reamde—a virus that encrypts all of a player's
electronic files and holds them for ransom—which has
unwittingly triggered a war that's creating chaos not only in
the virtual universe but in the real one as well. Its
repercussions will be felt all around the globe—setting
in motion a devastating series of events involving Russian
mobsters, computer geeks, secret agents, and Islamic
terrorists—with Forthrast standing at ground zero and his
loved ones caught in the crossfire.