MathFiction: Flame War: A Cyberthriller (Joshua Quittner / Michelle Slatalla)

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Flame War: A Cyberthriller (1997)

Joshua Quittner / Michelle Slatalla
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A brilliant math professor invents a code that even the government will not be able to break. When he dies in an explosion, his daughter and the law student who (unknowingly) delivered the bomb that killed him work together to bring the killers to justice.

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Mathematical Content:
1/5 (1 votes)

Literary Quality:
2/5 (1 votes)

Categories:

Genre	Mystery, Adventure/Espionage,
Motif	Academia,
Topic	Computers/Cryptography,
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