KILLER.app **FIRST IN SERIES**

N.Y.: Forge, 1996. 1st edition, March 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Publisher's publicity sheet laid in. First in a new series featuring chicago cops Suze Figueroa & Norm Bennis. "Next to Dean Utley, the computer honcho in D'Amato's police procedural, Microsoft's Bill Gates seems laid back: Gates only tries to dominate his products' markets; Utley aims to control the world. With the customized systems Utley has installed at credit card companies, hospitals, and the Chicago Police Department, his band of amoral hackers and thugs could succeed. D'Amato, author of the Cat Marsala mysteries, starts slowly here, taking time to introduce characters coming at the case from several directions: Jesus Delgado, investigating a missing policeman's corpse that popped up in the Chicago River; Max Brown, CPD computer whiz; Susanna Figueroa and partner Norm Bennis, drawn in when Figueroa's sister, a computer engineer, spots strange programs and ends up in a coma. Once D'Amato hooks us, however, she offers a pulse-pounding roller-coaster ride as the tiny, isolated team of cops takes on the deadly cyberconspirators. Vivid and involving; well worth suspending disbelief" -- BOOKLIST. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.