The Dalhart Pursuit

Greg Dalhart is easily the best software engineer of his generation, but almost nobody knows it. He taught computers to reason by themselves, and used them to dramatically leverage his own genius. In three intense years, he created software that can find any fugitive in the U.S.

Now it is tracking him down as he runs for his life. Suddenly Greg Dalhart is worth many millions of dollars dead.

He never should have survived the first twenty-four hours, but proved astonishingly elusive. Soon the killers after him, and the woman with him, will learn the same thing: Greg Dalhart and his software are not at all what they had seemed -- and one of the two is evil.

There's a classic chase story here as action, suspense, and romance race together from Naples, Florida to the mountains of northern Georgia. One imagines both men and women turning pages quickly -- but then slowing to think more deeply as the real story begins to emerge.

The powerful interests after Dalhart desperately want his life. That's the chase story. However, those interests next will want the average American's freedom, and that's the real story. Readers discover just how close electronic surveillance brings them to living in an East Germany. Dalhart's technology already does, in credible ways, what the East German secret police could only dream about.

Dalhart might stop the impending tyranny, but will he even try?