Artificial Intelligencia

by Richard A. Clarke

Overview

Our lives are more controlled by computers and algorithms than we understand, but who controls the computers? Artificial Intelligencia steps behind the veil into the world of hackers, intelligence agents, surveillance systems, quantum computing, and deadly international competition.

A junior Chinese police detective stumbles onto a global plot that has control of camera and computer systems tracking billions of humans, including people who seem to exist only in cyberspace. He created the world’s most advanced surveillance system and now an even more powerful program is after him.

Ranging from inside the highest offices in China to the halls of Washington’s security establishment and the cutting-edge labs of Canada and California, Chief Inspector Wei Bao races to stop an impending disaster. Only two problems: he does not know what the disaster will be or who is going to perpetrate it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644282526
Publisher:	Rare Bird Books
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,106,586
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Richard Clarke was appointed by President Clinton as the first National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism in May 1998 and continued in that position under George W. Bush. Until March 2003 he was a career member of the Senior Executive Service, having begun his federal service in 1973 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as an analyst on nuclear weapons and European security issues. In the Reagan administration, Mr. Clarke was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. In the first Bush administration, he was the Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs.

Editorial Reviews

02/28/2022

In this intelligent and alarmingly possible thriller from bestseller Clarke (Breakpoint), Det. Insp. Wei Bao, an honest Chinese policeman assigned to the small harbor town of Dalian, is stunned when his superior, Chief Insp. Wang Niu, orders Wei to Beijing to meet with the Chinese president’s chief of staff, Huang Qiang. He’s even more shocked when Huang taps him, as part of the latest crackdown on corruption, to probe the rising numbers of people being paid for no-show jobs by large corporations. He’s given a temporary promotion and asked to use his knowledge of artificial intelligence to determine the extent of the payroll fraud and to stop it. That mission sends him to North America, where Wei learns the problem isn’t limited to his home country and may be tied to the murder of his former professor, Ramesh Pandry, a pioneer in quantum computing. The threat proves much more severe than either Wei or Huang could have anticipated. Former U.S. counterterrorism official Clarke’s expertise in cybercrime and AI lend the disturbing plot plausibility. Mark Alpert fans will be engrossed. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

"Former U.S. counterterrorism official Clarke’s expertise in cybercrime and AI lend the disturbing plot plausibility. Mark Alpert fans will be engrossed."

—Publisher's Weekly

Praise for Richard A. Clarke:

"In the battle raging between offense and defense in cyberspace, Clarke and Knake have some important ideas about how we can avoid cyberwar for our country, prevent cybercrime against our companies, and in doing so, reduce resentment, division, and instability at home and abroad."

—Bill Clinton on The Fifth Domain

“What Tom Clancy did for submarines, Richard A. Clarke does for drones. Fascinating and frightening, Sting of the Drone moves as fast as the new kind of warfare that it depicts, with authentic details that only someone with the author’s impressive insider credentials could know. This first-rate thriller…a cross between a techno-thriller and a docu-thriller, ought to be required reading for anyone who wants to know the current status of the battle against terrorism.”

—David Morrell, bestselling author of First Blood, on Sting of the Drone

“[A] harrowing—and persuasive—picture of the cyberthreat the United States faces today.”
—Michiko Kakutani, of The New York Times on Cyber War

“His almost three-decade background in intelligence and counterterrorism serves him exceptionally well when he narrates a hair-raising Special Ops assault.”

—The Washington Post on Scorpion's Gate

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