Sailor Take Warning

On Bill Rundles computer screen was a message from a dead man. Justin Marsh his graduate research assistant at MITs Cognitive Computing Lab. Justin was inventive curious and brilliant beyond any student hed ever had. On an early morning walk by the Charles River the day before Rundle had discovered Justins body lying in the water oddly mutilated--the left eye was missing. But now somehow and from somewhere a computer belonging to Justin had come to life to send his posthumous email. Attached were over six thousand lines of what looked like jumbled code--or was it? What secret did it hold? Either way Rundle couldnt make sense of the message why Justin had sent it or why those six thousand lines of seeming gibberish may have cost him his life... Helped by a colleague Rundle learns its a program for piloting an Americas Cup yacht. Under suspicion himself for Justins murder and despite threats Rundle sets out to uncover the real killer. Suspects linked to an Americas Cup team include a Russian Mafioso an aggressive Japanese millionaire a Boston-based entrepreneur even the head of Rundles own lab. When another colleague is found dead Rundle deciphers a complex clue that leads him to a deadly climactic encounter.