The Millennium Ring

About the Book

Billionnaire Wesley Calder is the world´s wealthiest man, but he is far from being satisfied.  As his long-time friend and business partner, this creates not just moral issues, but serious - even deadly problems for Tom McBride.

The first is a fact that Tom helped cover up long ago - namely that in spite of his position, Calder remains an unrepentant hacker on a grand scale.  Instead of being content that his programs are installed in 80% of the world´s computer systems, his desire to control and dominate them has expanded along with his fortune.  Years ago, he used the vast resources of the company they created to place the ultimate Trojan Horse in Computers all over the world.  An award-winning series of websites on the Internet called the Millennium Ring solved the computer date problem associated with the turn of the new century and at the same time introduced a control program capable of manipulating or destroying those same systems.

When Tom learns of this, he is forced to face up the another problem he fights to ignore - Wesley´s smoldering and perhaps unrealized desire for Tom´s wife Anne.

Just when the pressure seems to have destroyed the partnership completely, a Valentine´s Day accident reveals a tiny part of the danger to the global economy and to the business they have worked so hard to build. Against his better instincts, Tom must work even harder to preserve those secrets, his marriage and even the lives of his family.  Both Tom and Anne become unwilling entrants in a murderous race between an international businessman, the government and organized crime to see who will control The Millennium Ring.  

About the Author

Daniel Johnson lives where he has always lived - in the Memphis Tennessee area – very happily with his wife, Ruth, and much less contentedly with a cat named Maggie. After a number of assorted careers, he prefers to write about some of the darker occupations that he managed to avoid and some of the adventure that has, for the moment, completely eluded him.