"... a satisfying debut thriller" that "... keeps readers on the edge of their seats." Booklist
Every week, a mad entrepreneur presents an execution, the live, real-time murder of someone who probably deserves it.
Book Facts
Title: Screenshot
Auhtor: John Darrin
Pages: 416
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
312.337.0747
Category: Fiction/Thriller
Techno-thriller Screenshot takes the power of the Web to deadly heights!
A multi-millionaire entrepreneur with a bent for murder, and a talent for creating bizarre and aptly-named killing machines, implements his latest business plan:interactive pay-per-view executions, live on the Internet.
First a ruthless drug dealer is torn to pieces by the"Rehabinator."
A pedophile is dispatched by controlledlightning from the liquid-Taser "Pediphryer."
And a mob boss and his mistress are electrocuted in their swimming pool with the "Lesso-lator", all with a click of the killer's F10 button.
And then another and another...
It's all live on the Internet, and the paying public lines up for the chance to "pull the trigger." A crackpot scientist who's almost as mad as the genius behind the killings holds the key to bursting his dot.com bubble. A free-lance writer and a rogue FBI computer geek must use it to unlock the secret of his identity.
Screenshot: a techno-thriller with a provocative premise.