Monopoly of Thought
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Retired NSA agent Stone and his paraplegic wife Dakota wake up one morning to discover someone's deposited over $100,000 into their bank account. Investigating the cause leads them into a race against time to stop the most virulent computer virus ever as the action takes them across the globe to track the hackers pushing the world towards World War III.
Meanwhile, a computer program, code named Max, breaks a millenniums old secret code producing an unexpected output - a sentient machine capable of controlling the technology which holds society together. As cyber attacks threaten to destroy the nation’s fabric, is Max the cure... or the cause?
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