Cutting Edge — Jerome Preisler

WIRED.

Africa becomes the battleground of twenty-first-century war. As fiber-optic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink International, headed by Roger Gordian. The Pan-African fiber-optic ring is his most ambitious - and expensive - endeavor to date. His nemesis, Harlan DeVane, is penetrating the network. DeVane trades in black-market commodities with terrorists and rogue states, and the cable offers him unlimited access to a most valuable product: information. To ensure his success, DeVane makes his move halfway around the world. He hits Gordian where it hurts - and kidnaps his daughter. Now, Gordian must trust his UpLink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to save his daughter and turn the tables against DeVane...once and for all.