Blue Nowhere

I read Blue Nowhere (By Richard North Patterson I think) a week ago.

It was a violent book about a psychopath serial killer who is also a "Wizard" level kraker (Apparently Kraker is the term for a hacker who does bad things on the net with other people's information) and in his youth, was abandoned/molested/beaten by his parents/relatives/teachers/siblings and is caught with the help of another hacker who is busted out of jail by the LAPD's Computer Crimes Unit who apparently don't have the know how to do their jobs properly, even though the head honcho is a "Wizard" hacker himself. The "good" hacker turns out to be a former partner of the "bad" kraker, but he wants to make amends for his bad past (and get his sentence suspended and get back with his former wife who is getting married to another guy and make a million buck with this break through state-of-the-art thingy that he made in jail out of somebody's walkman and some spoons) and so on and so forth till everybody but the good hacker dies. Then he finds out that the guy he thought was his ex's boyfriend by hacking into her email account is actually his son whom he never heard about. And they all live happily ever after.

This book's cover said "NEW YORK TIMES' NO. 1 BESTSELLER". yippee.