Kirjahaku

This story seeks to provide entertaining characters while dealing with the multidimensional possibilities recently confirmed by physicists. FBI Agents, investigating phenomena, discover more than they are equipped to deal with. Teaming with others from alternate dimensions our heroes travel the multidimensional worlds to restore order. The relationships between species provide a light side to a heavy subject.

Set in the era of the 1990s, this book portrays an existing secret world, hidden in our technological evolution. Outright evil people and colorful characters were around and were, largely, unrecognized. Follow their journey in a prior time and ask yourself, "how much is true and how much is fiction?" Such characters did and do exist. There had been a new form of clandestine warfare waged ever since the close of World War II. Industrial espionage had been well out of the public eye. Only in the 1990s has the extent of covert activity been creeping into the news. U.S .News and World Report, the Wall St. Journal and others have begun to report on this industrial espionage. . American corporations had been stealing each other's secrets and technology for decades. Their intellectual gamesmanship was not prepared for more primitive assault. As the world emerged from WW11, non-violent activity graduated, on the international front, into a more dangerous and invasive activity. With U.S. firms reacting to the outflow of technology, the "Corporate Spy Wars" (U.S. News and World Report February 1998) were well under way. International corporate spying has even given birth to new breeds of computer hackers. One group in St. Petersburg Russia made off with ten million dollars from Citibank in 1994, without firing a shot. The problems are so pervasive; the Congress passed the 1996 Economic Espionage Act empowering the FBI to assist in protection of the national interest. The FBI established its office called the Computer Investigations and Infrastructure Assessment Center which began a partnership between government and corporate America. All of these measures have been described as too little, too late. In the 1990s alone, the value of stolen information is estimated to be as much as 300 Billion. The reaction has been predictable. It is said that there is an even uglier underside of this spy activity, a world that, given unlimited funds and access, is fighting this battle with weapons and lives.....a world with no Geneva Convention to protect the participants......the Tech Agents. This book attempts to portray their world.

This sequel to Tech Agent begins, as did the first novel, with an act of cruelty by Marina Dubroski. Marina is the emotionally disturbed and dangerous half sister of the ruthless French entrepreneur Jean Perriot. Marina, after giving birth to a girl child while in captivity by Perriot, brutally murders a priest and a nun supervising her care. The story follows this female personification of evil through France, Iraq and Iran of the 90s. Thwarting her maniacal attempts though to her attempt to attack her hated enemies, the American people. Here Marina escapes, kidnapping the baby as a hostage to protect herself from Perriot and his agents. Marina flees to Iran and Iraq, hiding her disfigurement with Muslim women's garb. She recruits the evil Arab Jamal, who had been punished and dismissed by Perriot. Funded by accumulations from her past activities and an alliance with Arab extremists, she hatches a plot to contaminate the water supplies of several world capitals with deadly organisms, deceiving the nations so they will blame each other and her enemies. There is to be a mega-million payoff from the Arab extremists if she succeeds. The heroes, the Tech Agents of the Walton Group, alerted by both Perriot and the contacts of agent Sloboda, act in concert with Perriot and four world governments to prevent this insane act, recovering stolen technology in the process. English, German, French and American pharmaceutical companies are finally persuaded by the near disaster to create an international industrial pact. These nations expect companies in other nations to join them lest they be economically disadvantaged. The self regulatory organization is expected to be much more effective than political treaties in controlling the use of the deadly agents and establishing cooperative regulatory enforcement. The aim is to eliminate industrial espionage where toxic agents are involved. The novel ends with the baby Nadia, named after Marina's dead twin sister, being recovered by Baxter. Baxter is the Walton Tech Agent who is the biological father of the child. This book, as with the first, ends with a plot twist involving Marina.