Fatal Score

Mayfield-Napolitani, Book 1

Joe Mayfield’s happy, ordinary life comes apart when his wife’s HealthScore is slashed and she is denied cancer treatment. Frantic to save her, Joe hacks into the Yak - the national database the US created after CyberWar I.

Joe’s discovery makes him the target of Phoenix, a man with a plot to skim billions in medical payments at the cost of thousands of lives. Joe goes off the grid, living on cash in out-of-the-way places. Weezy, a brilliant Yak tracker, runs him down, assuming he’s a black hat hacker. She becomes Joe’s ally when Phoenix targets her. Finally, in a single-wide trailer in Panacea, Florida, Joe and Weezy work to destroy Phoenix before Phoenix destroys them.

Fatal Score is a debut novel about big data, the future of medicine, the pain of loss, and the power of redemption.

©2018 John Baird Rogers (P)2019 John Baird Rogers