Runtime Zero, the opening salvo in Mick Brady's Dark Math series, traces the journey of a gifted young artist named Will Powers from his drug-fueled downfall in the streets of Manhattan to a future rebirth in a virtual paradise called SubVersa-a world where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden; where Chrome, his digital surrogate, finally lives out his maker's dream of becoming a master artist and in the process becomes a master programmer-a Code Warrior. But all is not well on planet Earth. A powerful virus called Dark Math has been embedded in the chain of human DNA by a band of...