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It's 1999, and Manhattan journalist Samantha Darling is in a fix. The whole world is going digital, including her beloved magazine, which is about to be re-launched as E-LIFE. If Internet newbie Samantha wants to keep her job, she's going to have to morph from old media to new media--and fast. Thanks to a tech scandal brewing on the West Coast, Sam's editor ships her out to the land of "e-holes" so she can interview one of Silicon Valley's hottest geek gods.

But the assignment soon takes a twist as deadly as the Pacific Coast Highway. Now Samantha isn't just worried about coming up with a killer story, she's got to come up with the killer--that is, if he (or she) doesn't find her first. Luckily for Sam, she's accompanied by a band of only-in-California characters: uber-caffeinated net slaves, Zen masters, entrepreneurs, and even hemp-loving hippies. As Samantha begins to unravel the startling tale of a dark past, and the astonishing truth behind two technology giants, she realizes how hopelessly entangled she has become in this dangerously disruptive new wired world. Can she escape? Does she want to?