"Bruce Sterling - Sneaking For Jesus 2001" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sterling Bruce)

eliminate national sovereignty. There must be world government, a
world police force, world courts, world banking and currency, and a
world elite in charge of it all."

Of course, if you are going to string all important global events onto
"a single thread," you are going to end up with an extremely variegated
necklace. When you formally assemble th

e whole farrago into the pages
of a thriller-novel, as Mr. Burkett does, the result is like Lovecraft
on laughing-gas. Mr. Burkett's fictional technique owes far more to
his favorite authors, Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton, than it does to
any genre SF writer. Mr Burkett is not himself an SF reader.
Nevertheless, his material itself is so inherently over-the-top that
his book resembles the Call of Cthulhu far more than a hunt for Red
October.

The pace is whiplash-fast and the set-up entirely mindboggling. In
the year 2001, the President, an Illuminati puppet "liberal," stages a
coup against Congress in the midst of economic collapse and massive
urban riots. The Mossad are bugging the White House and building a
cobalt super-bomb with the Red Chinese. We learn that the Illuminati
began as Druids and transmuted into Freemasons; the wily Jews, of
course, have known all about the Illuminati for centuries, though never
bothering to inform us goyim. The gay Governor of California is a
feminist church-taxing coke addict. The "liberal" President sells
"brain-dead" crack babies to fetal-tissue medical entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, evil liberal civil-libertarians tattoo everyone's right hand
with the scanner-code of the Beast 666. It just goes on and on!

The yummiest item in the whole stew, however, is the identity of the
book's hero, one Jeff Wells. Jeff's a computer hacker. A genius
hacker for Christ. Somewhat against his will and entirely without any
evil intent, Jeff was recruited to design and build the gigantic
Data-Net financial network, which the Illuminati secular one-worlders
then use to consolidate power, and to pursue and harass innocent
Christian activists. When Jeff discovers that the feds are using his
handiwork to round up Baptists and ship them by the trainload to dismal
gulags in Arizona, he drops out of the system, goes deep underground,
and joins the Christian revolutionary right.

With the moral guidance of a saintly televangelist, Jeff, using his
powerful and extremely illegal com

puter-intrusion skills, simply chops
up Data-Net like a cook deboning a chicken. In defence of his Savior,
Jeff basically overthrows the US Government by digital force and
violence. He defrauds the government of billions of dollars. He
creates thousands of false identities. He deliberately snarls train
traffic and airport traffic. He spies on high government officials,