Zero Day_ A Novel - Mark Russinovich [134]
The murder of George Carlton was resolved by the charging of a local pimp and extortionist.
The woman who proved so instrumental in all this, Ivana Koskov, returned to Moscow. She has been sponsored into the United States by Interport, Inc.
I believe that is it. As we discussed, please accept this as my letter of resignation effective in 30 days. I will be joining Jeff Aiken in his company and look forward to working with you in that capacity in the future.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank Chris Corio, Scott Field, John Lambert, and Matt Thomlinson, colleagues of mine at Microsoft, for reviewing drafts of Zero Day and providing valuable input. Thanks also to David Solomon for his multiple reviews and many conversations discussing the technical aspects of the book. Ron Watkins provided me helpful advice and coaching on the plot, structure, character development, and other aspects of the book. Zero Day is a better book than it would have been because of the feedback I received from these friends.
I owe a special thanks to Howard Schmidt for the foreword and to Bill Gates for providing a promotional blurb and for the many discussions we had on cyber security. I’m grateful to Scott Stein for introducing me to Howard.
I might have given up getting the book published if it were not for the dogged persistence of my agent, Ann Collette, from the Helen Rees Literary Agency. She also reviewed numerous versions of the book, editing and making suggestions that helped tighten the plot.
Thanks to Peter Joseph, my editor at Thomas Dunne Books, for his reviews and for ushering the book through publication, and Thomas Dunne for taking a chance on a first-time novelist.
Finally, I want to thank my wife, the real-life Daryl, for her incredible support on this and everything else I do.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.
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ZERO DAY. Copyright © 2011 by Mark Russinovich. Foreword © 2011 by Howard A. Schmidt. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Russinovich, Mark E.
Zero day : a novel / Mark Russinovich ; foreword by Howard Schmidt. — First edition.
p. cm
ISBN 978-0-312-61246-7
1. Cyberterrorism—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3618.U7688Z47 2011
813'.6—dc22
2010040346
First Edition: March 2011
eISBN 978-1-4299-6804-1
First Thomas Dunne Books eBook Edition: March 2011
Table of Contents
Foreword
Title Page
Memorandum
Week One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Week Two
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Week Three
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Week Four
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Zero Day
Chapter 68
Memorandum
Acknowledgments
Copyright