Description

PhD candidate and single mom Kali Delamagente has something in common with Albert Einstein: They both regret their inventions. His changed the world and hers is on a train-wreck course to destroy it. It starts when her brainchild, a supercomputer named Otto, accidentally uncovers a foolproof way to steal military secrets. Kali’s brilliant friend, Cat, persuades her to enter Otto in a contest, the same one where Cat will unveil her undetectable DNA-based computer virus. It’s no surprise both inventions catch the attention of America’s enemies. Their goal: hijack America’s Trident subs, the most advanced military platforms in the world.

Enter Zeke Rowe, ex-SEAL-turned-anthropolo gy professor. Though he doesn’t believe Otto can find the Tridents’ covert hiding places or that Cat’s virus can hijack them, he soon learns how wrong he is. When Kali’s son is kidnapped, the threat becomes all too real. Now she faces a moral dilemma: Is one life worth that of a nation? Because no answer is acceptable, Kali, Cat and Zeke band together to regain control of America’s most clandestine secrets.

TO HUNT A SUB is a richly-textured techno-thriller set in a virtual world as real as its physical counterpart. Its cerebral characters maneuver through a fast-moving serpentine plot where more is at stake than a mother’s son or a man’s passion for his country, where victory requires out-thinking the enemy, and where battle lines are formulas and theorems rather than guns and shattered landscapes.

J.P. Murray is the author of the how-to book Building a Midshipman: How to Crack the USNA Application and a series of six computer workbooks for grades K-6. S/he won the Southern California Writers Conference's Outstanding Fiction Award for this upcoming techno-thriller, To Hunt a Sub. Reviewers laud it as 'strongly written' with 'interesting and unique plot hooks'. Currently, s/he's working on a prehistoric novel, Born in a Treacherous Time (excerpt also available on Scribn.com) . S/he lives in Laguna Hills CA with two beautiful Labradors.