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Dark Justice: A Novel
Description:
If I’d had any idea what those words would mean to me, to my mother and daughter, I’d have fled California without looking back.
While driving a rural road, Hannah Shire and her aging mother, who suffers from dementia, stop to help a man at the scene of a car accident. The man whispers mysterious words in Hannah’s ear. Soon people want to kill Hannah and her mother for what they “know.” Even law enforcement may be involved.
The two women must flee for their lives. But how does Hannah hide her confused mother? Carol just wants to listen to her pop music, wear her favorite purple hat, and go home. And if they turn to Hannah’s twentyseven- year-old daughter, Emily, for help, will she fall into danger as well?
Pressed on all sides, Hannah must keep all three generations of women in her family alive. Only then does she learn the threat is not just to her loved ones, but the entire country . . .
Book Takeaway:
No matter how terrifying our world becomes, God is with us.
Awards:
Year |
Title |
Description |
2014 |
Christian Booksellers Best Award Finalist |
Suspense |
2014 |
ECPA Book of the Year Award Finalist |
Fiction category |
2014 |
Christy Award Finalist |
Suspense category |
2014 |
ForeWord Book of the Year Award Finalist |
Thriller category |
Why the author wrote this book:
Dark Justice carries the brand promise of my Seatbelt Suspense® novels: fast-paced, character-driven suspense with myriad twists and an interwoven thread of faith.
While this story is fictional, it is based on the terrifying reality that terrorists could target America's electrical grid. In 2011, the consulting firm Pike Research issued a report stating that security for the electrical grid was in "near chaos," giving attackers the "upper hand" since many attacks could not be prevented. The problem centered on aging infrastructures with no built-in security. And the security that was present could be bypassed by a "$60 piece of software."
The shutdown of just one local grid could cause a "cascade effect," said Pike, causing an entire region to lose power.
I first learned this information when I saw a CNN report of an experiment conducted in 2007 by the U.S. Department of Energy. In the experiment, a replica of a power-plant control system was hacked and damaged by remote. The generator shook and released steam, and soon went out of control. The entire video lasts about a minute.
In 2010, a unique and sophisticated computer worm spread through Iran, India, and Indonesia. Named Stuxnet, the worm looked for very specific settings, then injected its own code into that system. After a few years of studying this worm, security researcher Ralph Langner concluded he was 100 percent certain Stuxnet was specifically targeted to wreak havoc in Iran's uranium-enrichment facility in Natanz. "This stuff is so bizarre," Langner told a reporter in an e-mail, "that I have to make up my mind how to explain this to the public." Later Langner said that now Stuxnet was "history," the current problem was "the next generation of malware that will follow."
That was more than enough to set my imagination running.
~ Brandilyn
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