The Ox Factor

For years, an unsuspecting United States did not know that its entire defense establishment, from security satellites to requisition orders, fed all that data into a Chinese supercomputer hidden deep within Beijing. When the invasion force struck and wiped out the entire U.S. Pacific fleet, a full conquest of America seemed certain. At first. But where there are computers, there are also programmers, and the fate of the world may lie in one pair of hands: those belonging to the elusive and secretive Ox, the only one who knows how the Chinese were able to pull off their daring cyberattack. Among the many choices facing U.S. President Elizabeth Rutledge is whether to trust Ox and how far; how best to cripple the Chinese; and whether the Union should even be saved. In "The Ox Factor" novelist Richard Duvall explores the unthinkable scenario: a powerful foreign invasion in direct conflict with the indomitable spirit only to be found in the average American. Not to be missed