Additional Info from Jeff Nichols ---

Mark Russinovich is the developer of Sysinternals that was bought by

Microsoft. He is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Dr. Russinovich

is also the one who found the rootkit that Sony music CDs would secretly

install on Windows computers for digital-rights management. Relatively

innocuous by itself, the Sony rootkit was so generally written that it

was easily exploited to hide real viruses. The back-pedaling that Sony

had to do because of this misstep initiated their lost of dominance in

the industry.

This is Russinovich's first novel. I'm a computational scientist at ORNL, so this

book

is right up my alley. I'd heard it raved about on several technology

podcasts. The technical details are precise and much of the plot turns

on rootkits and modern virus development. It's an engaging summer

thriller. More recently I've heard that a sequel is being written.

Here's an AuthorsCast link with Russinovich:

http://authorscast.com/Episodes/Mark-Russinovich-on-Zero-Day-A-Novel