Authors Note

What happens when a revengeful criminal gains access to a city's central computer data system?

The catastrophes that strike the town of Hollister seem unrelated at first. They began with a minor tragedy.

Art Prochaska, one of the town's prestige carpenter who retired, had his electricity is cut off one winter's day, even though he paid his bill on time . . . the old man's death receives wide publicity, encouraging resistance to the city's dependence upon the date system.

Fear mounts as it becomes clear that someone is fiendishly tampering with computer programmes on which thousands of life depend.

A contemporary suspense story spiced by an unexpected romance.