Hardwired Book

When Margo Miller, a NASA public relations specialist dressed in a seven-hundred-dollar suit, appears at Data9000 to hire Julie and her partner Vic Paoli, the two investigators leap at the chance to solve an easy case and meet real astronauts at the same time. Relocating to NASA's headquarters in Houston for what looks to be a straightforward case of computer hacking turns into a serious matter of life and death. If Julie and Vic can't find the person who's discovered a way into the computer system at Mission control, the lives of the astronauts involved in the upcoming shuttle mission will be endangered. But even before they leave Earth, the shuttle mission's astronauts start turning up dead, beginning with what looks like a staged suicide.