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The Sparrow
The Sparrow, a novel based on real science by Sam Faulkner. An African American, SHAWN JEFFERSON, puts himself through college on a football scholarship and then obtains a Ph. D. in physics from a mediocre university. Agencies will not give him grants to fund the research and charitable activities he wants to carry out in Harlem, so he is forced to use his talents as a computer hacker to reverse their decisions. He manages to build a quantum computer, a high-tech device that can be used to break any code or encryption that exists today. When the police mistakenly shoot the brother of his girl-friend, VANESSA JONES, he uses his quantum computer to hack into the management program of an insurance company and issue a policy to pay the boy's medical bills. This gets the attention of United States National Security Agency (NSA) agents, who give him the code-name "Sparrow." They believe that Shawn must be collaborating with a foreign power because it is inconceivable that he could build a quantum computer on his own. He and his girl-friend escape from New York and, after several adventures along the way, they arrive in Mississippi where they find refuge with a college friend and plantation owner, BO AYCOCK. The NSA finally recognizes their mistake and attempts to bring Shawn in peacefully so that they can learn about the technology of his quantum computer. The leader of the local Ku Klux Klan hates Bo for personal reasons, and hates Shawn because of his color. They attack Bo's plantation and inflict great damage in spite of the efforts of the NSA agents to stop them.
This novel differs from others in the action-adventure genre in that it is colored with nontechnical but accurate details about the underlying science and mathematics of computers and encryption. It will be particularly interesting to the computer-literate generation of today. Governments are spending a great deal of money to develop quantum computers because certain tasks that are impossible for an ordinary computer can be carried out using this device. In particular, a quantum computer can be used to breach the security of any non-quantum computer and break the kind of codes that are presently used to protect their contents. The NSA is eager to have one because the encryption used by ordinary citizens to secure their credit card numbers and e-mail is also used by possible terrorists, and is unbreakable with present-day technology.