The Cassandra Syndrome

<P>Anne Cortez and her son Mark were on a cruise of Scandinavia and Russia when they witnessed a shooting.</P><P>Untoward violence seemed to occur around a fellow passenger Dr. Fawzi Senawi an Iranian nuclear physicist.</P><P>Anne and Mark tried to avoid Senawi; but could they turn their back on a dying man's plea that they save his kidnapped son?</P><P>Acting on a clue Anne surmised that this was connected to the release of the 'Stuxnet cyberworm' by the USA. This malware was supposed to deter the Iranian nuclear program.</P><P>Anne and Mark sought the help of the past counter-terrorism czar and other would be patriots but they are drawn into a deepening web of international intrigue.<P><P>Could they avert the repercussions of a cyberwar that would disrupt our financial electrical and defense systems; and would make possible the prediction that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would fall to triple digits in 2016?</P>