The Blue Nowhere Group is a place for Jeffery Deaver fans to discuss the the most spine-tingling suspense novels available today: from The Bone Collector to The Vanished Man to The Twelfth Card. The Blue Nowhere is the best book ever written about the Internet's secret underworld:

"This novel is, in hacker lingo, "totally moby," the most exciting, and most vivid, fiction yet about the neverland hackers call "the blue nowhere." - Publishers Weekly

"Bestselling author Jeffery Deaver ratchets up the suspense one line of code at a time; his terrific pacing drives the narrative to a thrilling and explosive conclusion." - Amazon.com

When a sadistic cracker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer game: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself anew - by taking his methodology to a higher level, and aiming at bigger targets.

Desperate, the head of The California State Police Computer Crimes Division frees Wyatt Gillette, imprisoned for breaking government encryption, to aid the investigation - against the loud protests of the rest of the division. With an obsession emblematic of crackers, Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phate's insidious computer virus back to its source. Then Phate delivers a huge blow, murdering one of the division's own and the search takes on a zealous intensity.

Gillette and Detective Frank Bishop - an old-school homicide cop who's accustomed to forensic sleuthing - make an uneasy team. But with a merciless and brilliant killer like Phate in their cross hairs, and his twisted game reaching a fever pitch, they must utilize every ounce of their disparate talents to stop him.