On 08/26/2013 12:33 AM, efinnell15 wrote: > One of our erudite consultants has retired and turned to fiction sort of as a > release. Anyway, not so much mainframe as 'computer center' politics. > Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble just search on Bill Fitts author. > There's three so far and more to come. The first one is free 'He Needed > Killing'. If you're an .edu you'll probably recognize the general theme of > things. > > No kicks backs, but am distantly related by marriage. > Read the 1st freebie (Amazon also provides a free on-line Kindle reader) and was hooked. I always enjoy a good detective novel, and it's also refreshing to read an author that can introduce digital technology into the plot without revealing the author's knowledge is limited to the Hollywood & TV-land parodies of our world, with computers having "magical" capabilities and "genius" users with "magical" hacking abilities.
Another thing which makes these enjoyable escapism is that all of us have from time to time in our lives encountered obnoxious as.ho...s in positions of power. These novels give vicarious satisfaction in that the victim is always one of these types, hence the "needed Killing" name of the series. And of course the hero in the novels who solves the cases is one of us, a technically savvy person with a logical mindset. -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
