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    The Requital
    The Requital
    The Requital
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    The Requital

    By Bruce Allsman

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    The Requital, a thriller by Bruce Allsman

    Dr. Avinash Gupta is a billionaire, a domotics pioneer and inventor of ISHANA, Integrated Smart Home and Networked Appliances, a state-of-the-art home automation system. Avinash and his wife, Shayla, live in their new home that is equipped with ISHANA. When unusual things begin to happen, he investigates and discovers that a malicious hacker, Peter Newman, a former employee with an axe to grind, is gradually taking control of ISHANA, in turn the home's hermetic environment thereby trapping him and his wife. Peter demands a huge ransom, an immediate payment by wire transfer, or he would use ISHAHA to kill them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Allsman
    Release dateNov 22, 2017
    ISBN9781370159031
    The Requital
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    Bruce Allsman

    Bruce Allsman is a short story author and novelist. He writes in many genres, including literary, romance, science fiction, horror, fantasy, crime, mystery, thriller and suspense genres. He has work appearing or forthcoming in over a dozen venues. When he's not writing, he enjoys learning foreign languages.

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