Suspense Novel foretells of possible cyberspace attack on the US

Feb. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- RALEIGH, NC - Anthony S. Policastro's suspenseful novel, DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM offers a plausible scenario to future cyber attacks against the US infrastructure.

Relying on years of research into the hacker community, Policastro weaves a very believable and scary story about what would happen if digital terrorists were able to shut down any US infrastructures like telecommunications, the Internet or the power grid.

The book is not just about technology, but appeals to women as well as he skillfully places a family man with a wife and daughter as the pivot point of the plot.

One reader wrote:
"But the novel isn’t just about technology gone wild. Dan has a wife and child and a home life too, and the up-down relationship of a marriage strained by work grounds the tale very realistically. The author writes convincing dialog, and Amelia’s sudden anger as Dan leaves to help the CIA saddened me because of its plausibility. It did disappoint me that Dan so easily attributes her outburst to her period. But then…"

In light of recent reports that Google turned to the National Security Agency for help on investigating cyber attacks on their networks, Policastro said,

"When I started researching my thriller/mystery about digital terrorists, DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM in 2005, I found that many security experts were talking about cyber threats and the possibility that organized hackers could take down the any major US infrastructure like telecommunications or the power grid. But their concerns went unheeded mainly because the mindset was that things that went on in cyberspace didn't affect things in the physical world.

"But the technology was there and in place only the human part of the equation had not yet caught up with it. As technical novelist and visionary William Gibson wrote, "The future has already arrived, it is just not widely distributed. It's hard to believe that some parts of my novel may come true.

"I wrote DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM with the hopes that my storyline would shed light on the increasing threats in cyberspace and how those threats could disrupt more than our connections to the Internet. I also wrote about the human drama involving a family and how it would play into such a tragedy if one were to happen.

"And what is scary about such an attack is that there is no warning - it just happens as quickly and completely as turning a light off in a room.

"I just hope a major breach in our computer systems never happens and that DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM will shed some light on this ominous, invisible threat that could seriously disrupt our way of life."

If you want to experience first hand a plausible, possible scenario of what could happen if the US infrastructure is compromised by digital terrorists read DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM, available from Amazon, and bookstores everywhere.  The ebook is available from Smashwords.com, the Kindle, the Nook and Mobipocket.com.

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