Eugene Rodgers

Femme Fatale Online (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

AS DISCUSSED ON THE NATIONAL CABLE TV PROGRAM, "AMERICA TRENDS," "Femme Fatale Online" is an intriguing mystery.

Rick Collins participates in a virtual world called Personal Portal, or PP, populated by avatars controlled by participants at their home computers who can be anywhere in the world. Using an expensive app, people can make their avatars look exactly like them in every detail. Through his avatar twin, Isaac, Rick spends all his PP time with another look-alike avatar, the sexy Joan d'Arc, who wants to have a romance. He's married with two toddlers and wrestles with the morality of a virtual relationship, finally deciding a PP romance is a harmless fantasy.

Joan's unknown animator gets him a job in the real world with a high-tech military contractor, and then reveals she's a spy for a huge international clandestine operation. She forces Rick into industrial espionage by blackmailing him with secretly-taped videos of their realistic-looking romantic activities. As the story develops, she threatens to kill him and his family unless he keeps his job, which is insecure and subject to vicious office politics. Rick, who knows absolutely nothing about the real Joan, realizes his family is doomed unless he can identify her and her whereabouts soon. As Rick stated his awful challenge, "I couldn't see any way to investigate a woman who was nothing but pixels on a computer screen."

Rick's job is in Pittsburgh, but circumstances have forced his family to remain in Virginia, and he's lonely. While he struggles to find the real Joan, one of the women he suspects of being her conducts a campaign to seduce him. Vulnerable and susceptible to an affair that would take his mind off Joan's terrifying threats, he gradually weakens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eugene Rodgers
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463602331
• Artikelnr.: 52538925

Autorenporträt

Eugene Rodgers has written two other books, both issued in hardcover by major publishers. He was named Virginia author of the year in 1991 by the Virginia College Store's Assoc. for "Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica," which is described in detail at the book's web site: www.byrdbook.wordpress.com. He also wrote a business book, "Flying High: The Story of Boeing and the Rise of the Jetliner Industry." Rodgers earned a B.S. in chemistry and served a grad school apprenticeship in science writing. He served as Public Information Officer for the U.S. Antarctic Research Program for two years. He spent most of his career in the electric power industry, working for Westinghouse Electric Corporation (where he was Director of Public Relations for the company's research and development center), Virginia Power (one of the country's largest electric utilities), the Department of Energy, the trade association of the nuclear power industry, and the Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC), which lends money to electric co-ops. On his own, he launched and published a newsletter covering research and development in the electric power industry. In addition to his work in that industry, he has been a speechwriter for the top executives of IBM and United Technologies. His freelanced projects include an op-ed solicited by the Wall Street Journal and a major address for the head of the Electric Power Research Institute. Rodgers earned an M.S. in finance and completed the course work toward a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science. He taught business writing and technical writing as an instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University (the huge public university). Rodgers has been interviewed numerous times by reporters for print media, local and network TV and radio news shows, talk shows, and documentaries. Rodgers is married and has a son and daughter, both grown.