Amnesia

By Peter Carey

Subjects: Computer viruses, Young women, Fiction, thrillers, technological, Technological, FICTION / Literary, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, political, FICTION, FICTION / Historical, Literary, Young women, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Historical, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Journalists, Australia, fiction, FICTION / Technological

Description: When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia's prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons, the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as "our sole remaining left-wing journalist," is determined to write Gaby's biography in order to find the answers--to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby--on the run, scared, confused, and angry--to cooperate?