Paperless

Cyber thieves, hackers, viruses, identity theft – terms we’ve come to fear – terms that have come with the advent of the world wide web. In his second novel, Paperless, A. Townsend Marshall takes us to the next level. Millions of individuals worldwide depend on the internet daily for information, communication, personal commerce and banking. Most businesses are electronically enabled internally and externally. They depend on the internet for business-to-business and global intrabusiness functions. In short, the internet is foundational to our new millennium lives and critical to large businesses. Paperless takes us on an eerily plausible journey. A disenfranchised computer scientist becomes an antihero who, in collaboration with a consortium of corrupt CEOs, creates software that virtually controls the internet and any business or individual who transacts via it. The consortium’s greedy and spiteful climb to power reeks. Personal devastation, murder and technological assault on the world’s most critical systems result. Could it happen now or in the future? Marshall makes us believe it can. He also offers a most improbable stabilizer. Paperless, as well as his first novel, Thread of Decency, draws on his extensive IT and managerial experience with the largest U.S. corporations.