Theft of Fire

Our world runs on data: encoded, compressed and sent as bits of light across an infinitely complex network that controls everything around us. Your mortgage, your life savings, your criminal record—information is life. To protect what is effectively the arbiter of our reality, critical data is encrypted so securely that it would take even the NSA months to break it. Until now.

Dr. Grace Llewellyn is head of a team working on a true quantum computer in a corporate complex in suburban Maryland. On the eve of her biggest breakthrough, the device she calls Prometheus is able to crack VALLOR—the cipher used to communicate with nuclear submarines—in a fraction of a second.

Hours later, 1st SFOD-D (“Delta Force”) operator Markus Stebbings is put in command of a hastily assembled team sent to destroy a domestic terror cell in possession of a nuclear bomb, and to recover that bomb at all costs—from a corporate complex in suburban Maryland.

Realizing he has been deceived, Markus learns that Prometheus represents a technological advancement so profound that it can alter the course of history. On the run with Grace and her fragile invention, Markus finds himself pitted against the full might of US intelligence and military forces as they mount the biggest manhunt ever conducted on American soil. But they must do more than merely stay alive, for somewhere out there is a fully operational quantum computer that is at least a match for Prometheus, and someone is using it to bend the world to their will.

Theft of Fire is a thrilling adventure in the tradition of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, and a cautionary tale of the potentially catastrophic consequences of rapidly advancing technology.

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