Originally Posted by
remember_Cedric
If TV thriller series, Criminal Minds, would come in printed book form, I would highly recommend it. I find it interesting when a "police" needs to (also) think like the "thief" in order to capture and take the "thief" in hand. However, the philosophy behind it is more than just the game of "police to catch thďef".
"Good and Bad, is divided by a find thin line."
Besides Jikembo of Kindaichi Shonen and Sherlock Holmes, I would recommend this title (that got me so addicted when I first read it since I'm a thriller novel fan and technology freak) having a plot better than The Da Vinci Code, IMO, a technology-thriller :
Digital Fortress* by author Dan Brown
Plot summary:
Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician and head of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) cryptography division, finds herself faced with an unbreakable code named "Digital Fortress", that TRANSLTR cannot break. TRANSLTR is the NSA's 3 million processor supercomputer that can crack encrypted data using the brute force method in a short amount of time, with some codes broken in more than 3 hours, others within minutes. The code of "Digital Fortress" is written by Japanese cryptographer Ensei Tankado, a fired employee of the NSA, who is displeased with the agency's intrusion into people's privacy. Tankado posts a copy of Digital Fortress on his website, encrypted with itself. Tankado auctions the passkey to unlock the algorithm on his website, threatening that his accomplice "North Dakota" will release the algorithm for free if he dies. Tankado is found dead in Seville, Spain. Fletcher, along with her fiancé, David Becker, a skilled linguist with eidetic memory, must find a solution to stop the spread of the code.
*Digital Fortress is actually a computer worm designed with the intent to open the entire NSA databank to the world. Tankado knew that the NSA would use TRANSLTR to try and crack the Digital Fortress algorithm so they could decode all messages encrypted with it. In doing so, Digital Fortress would then gain access to the databank and open all its firewalls so that "Any 3rd grader with a modem would get access."
I have a few other titles which I can't remember. I'll go dig'em up.