Breakpoint (novel)

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name = Breakpoint
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author = Richard A. Clarke
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Cyberpunk, Science fiction novel
publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons
release_date = 2007
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
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isbn = ISBN 0-399-15378-0
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Breakpoint is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by former United States intelligence and counterterrorism official Richard A. Clarke. [cite web | url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0399153780/ | title=Amazon.com] It is his second novel. The book paints a dystopic prediction of the future. [cite web | url=http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-rutten10jan10,0,6278605.story?coll=cl-books-top-right | title=Calendar Live Review]

Plot

A series of explosions occur at seemingly unimportant sites in the United States. These sites happen to be the locations where transatlantic cables from Europe and Asia reach the U.S. essentially cutting the U.S. off from the world, at least via the Internet. The attacks are immediately blamed on the Chinese. Two investigators are sent to investigate the incidents, with this assumption in mind. The investigators soon uncover an underground science of genomics and nanotech working on human-computer integration.

Reception

It was recently featured on the Colbert Report. [cite web | url=http://www.colbertnation.com/?p=547 |title=Colbert Nation]

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