This is the story of two modern wizards, each with an almost super-human capacity to manipulate the universal implement of the coming era: the Computer.
Rita Spark, the guiding genius of International Industries, has clawed her way up from poverty to a position of almost total power. Her only nemesis is Berkowitz, a genius-dropout who has used his talents to create a towering electronic pleasure palace that glows high above San Francisco Bay. Berkowitz risks his treasured obscurity to save a poor runaway imprisoned by medieval Middle Eastern potentates in a surreal international brothel. But the kingdom is the last link in Rita’s plan to control the world’s resources, and so Berkowitz confronts her in a climactic duel, computer versus computer, power against humanity—a thrilling, coruscating combat to the death, in the grand tradition of heroic battle against all odds.
Originally published by St. Martin’s Press (May, 1982).
