Based in part on an online bet (http: //longbets.org/4/) by Craig Mundie, the Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft; and Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman at Google, that commercial jets will soon be flown without pilots and by computer alone, this fast paced and very plausible thriller could just as easily be in the news as on the bookstands. Set a few years in the near future, but born in North Africa a few decades ago, this diabolical plot spans the globe before it lands in Southern California and tears Annette Madison's life apart. Her son Derek, kidnapped by his Algerian...