Two For One: The Cassandra Conspiracy & The Paladin Deception

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Summer is officially here. A great beach read. In one word-Enjoy.

The Cassandra Conspiracy

When reluctant hero, Steve Payton, receives an encrypted email by accident he ends up losing sleep. But not as much sleep as when he decides to investigate further.

Soon Payton and Janet Phillips, a cryptographic specialist he enlists for help, realize that nothing is, as it seems. The email is setting up someone for a “hit”; Janet and Steve are plunged unwittingly into a quagmire of betrayal, political intrigue and assassination.

Payton and Janet desperately attempt to piece the puzzle together. To do so they have to try to figure out who’s important enough to have a five million dollar bounty on his head, and then can they defuse the crisis that’s facing the nation before it’s too late.

All the while, The Committee is playing their ruthless and deadly power game to have their target eliminated. And in doing so, The Committee will effect a change at the highest levels of government. What can go wrong: they have a pair of ready-made patsies.



The Paladin Deception

David Cahill has a favorite pastime. He likes to hack into various computer systems if for nothing else than to “test” their security. However his world came crashing down around him and his pretty wife, Laura, when the FBI raided his house one dark night.

Having been tried and found guilty, Cahill is staring at untold number of years making federal license plates. That is unless he accepts the job offered by the Paladin Group, a super-secret element of the National Security Agency.

Cahill has no desire to work for the U. S. government, much less the well-known NSA. But he has no choice: it’s either throw his hat into the ring and take the position, or plan on seeing Laura during conjugal visits. Cahill knows what he has to do if he wants to avoid prison. It just a matter of doing it.

Assigned to work under the leadership of Robyn Peterson, Cahill is tasked to be a member of the Black Hat team. Like the group that created Stuxnet that virtually crippled the Iranian nuclear program, the Black Hat team challenges the security of “target” computer systems by writing Trojan Horses, viruses, and worms to penetrate the target system.

Each target system is defended by Paladin’s White Hat group. War games played with software's ones and zeros.

Cahill soon senses trouble. His suspicions come to life when a co-worker/friend is first incarcerated and then killed while in prison. And then one night, Laura disappeared only to be returned home with a warning: “Stay on the straight and narrow, Cahill, or something a lot worse will befall you.”

Except for Robyn Peterson, Cahill is totally alone. He can’t turn to the NSA or the FBI for help. Cahill has no choice but to deal with the Paladin Group the only way that he knows how-hack his way into their mammoth Cray computer system.

Pursued by the Paladin Group’s security team and betrayed by those closest to them, Cahill and Robyn had no choice but to literally run for their lives. All the while, they try to get past the Paladin Group’s road blocks to penetrating the computers.

And the Paladin Group’s computer system is well protected…very well protected. The Paladin Group has literally planned its defenses against virtually every method of penetrating their system-both hardware and software.

Not willing to rely on simple password protection schemes, the Paladin Group has a myriad of systems to keep anyone without high-level access out. With their card reader and retina comparison systems, which have never been compromised, the Paladin Group’s directors sleep well each night. They have thought of every thing.

Or have they?

Cut from today's high-tech headlines, The Paladin Deception takes the reader to the front of the cyberwar.