Turing's Delirium

✍ Scribed by Edmundo Paz Soldán

• Publisher: Mariner Books;Houghton Mifflin
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 211 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Set in a near-future Bolivia, this "hybrid of cyberpunk and political thrillers [is] sleek, brisk, and clever" (Entertainment Weekly).
Set against a backdrop of advancing globalization, this award-winning, "fast-paced" literary thriller puts a cutting-edge digital spin on the age-old fight between the oppressed and the oppressor (The Miami Herald).

The South American town of Río Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolution—not a revolution of strikes and street riots, but a war waged electronically, in which computer viruses are the weapons and hackers the revolutionaries. In this war of information, the lives of a variety of characters become entangled: Kandinsky, the mythic leader of a group of hackers fighting the government and transnational companies; Albert, the founder of the Black Chamber, a state security firm charged with deciphering the secret codes used in the information war; and Miguel "Turing" Sáenz, the...