HUNTING GIDEON

Tracking hackers and crackers for the FBI s National Infrastructure Protection Center looks like a vivid video game to an outsider, but the outcome of the play is deadly serious. Through her online feline avatar, Sekhmet, Sue Anne Jones stalks the V-Net, the ultimate virtual-reality interface, in pursuit of evil in all its online forms. Her partner, ex-cracker Loren Hunter, provides cynical commentary along with his expertise in the V-Net s shadier alleys. Their days of busting routine identity thieves and insidious corporate spies end when they get a new assignment