The Requital

By Bruce Allsman

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.

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bruce Yeoh
• Release date: May 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201081621

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The Requital

Bruce Allsman

All of the characters in this book

are fictitious, and any resemblance

to actual persons, living or dead,

is purely coincidental.

The Requital

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The Requital

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The Requital

PARDON ME MADAM, I'M unable to process your request. A female voice, an impartial, smooth, mechanical, and monotone speech permeated the entire residence. It emanated from electro-acoustic transducers fitted in every room.

You've selected a wrong option, I told my wife, Shayla. In the kitchen near the fridge, we stood at a computer terminal with a twelve-inch touch screen.

Shayla withdrew her forefinger and frowned at me. What did I do wrong?

Here, let me show you, I said. The full set of commands is shown here. With my index finger, I moved the cursor to the top of the display and a horizontal row of program icons appeared.

Above the row, the word ‘ISHANA' and on the next line the words, ‘Integrated Smart Home and Networked Appliances', were