The Rainier Paradigm

Melissa Ross, a girl from the hard luck towns of the Olympic Peninsula
and a graduate student at the University of Washington, finds herself
wanted as an international terrorist by the Naval Undercover Tracking
Service, once she becomes involved with a UW professor from an old
and powerful American family. She soon discovers the rich and brilliant
professor is being tracked by celebrity hacker Julian Fry's West Coast
hackers, who are chasing down a mysterious top secret operation the
profes...