Description
Two Millennial fears haunt most Americans: the sense of Armageddon, and the pending Y2K crisis. Both are woven together in Edwin Black's Format C: , a tense and compelling mystic techno-thriller about the final battle between good and evil fought against the race to fix the Millennium-Bug.In Format C: , the richest man on earth, Ben Hinnom, owns the world's largest computer company which sells the Windgazer 99 operating system. Hinnom uses global fears of the Y2K problem to launch the final domination of mankind. The only ones standing in his way are brash. guilt-ridden Chicago investigative reporter Dan Levin, his computer savvy girlfriend Park, and her profoundly inward teenage son, Sal, a computer genius who becomes the nexus in the fight to save humanity.Format C: takes readers from the cutthroat competition of the computer world and big media in the U.S. ... to Jerusalem's Old City where terrorists strike ... to the caves of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls and the mysterious Copper Scroll advance the intrigue ... to the back alleys of ancient Tsfat, where Kabbalistic mysteries are unraveled ... to the actual location of Biblical Hell outside Jerusalem's Old City known in ancient times for child immolation. It all culminates in the prophesied cataclysmic final battle between good and evil at midnight on December 31, 1999 at Har Megiddo, the site known as Armageddon.Ripped from today's headlines and Black's personal experiences, Format C: will be the most controversial book in its category next year.
