THE PACKET STORM — Action Screenplay

Chen Wei works for the Ministry of State Security in Beijing. Sarah Cole works for the CIA in Langley. Neither of them has ever heard the other's name until they both trace the malware currently shutting down three American cities to the same NSA development team. Over an encrypted channel neither government can break, they begin assembling the truth in pieces. The question is not whether they can prove it. The question is whether either of them will survive long enough to release it, because the only thing both of their countries agree on is that this story cannot exist.

A Chinese state network engineer and a burned CIA analyst discover the same impossible truth from opposite sides of the firewall: the cyberattack on America's power grid was written in Virginia, not Beijing. The people who launched the attack are waiting for them to prove it.

• Genre: Action
• 102 pages
• Language: EN
• Format: feature screenplay, instant PDF download
• Available editions: Reader, Producer, and Collector licenses

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