Y2K: The Day The World Shut Down

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Bob Priam has everything. A great job as Chief Information Officer at a Fortune 1000 company. A loving wife and three adoring, well-adjusted children. Enough money to live comfortably, if not extravangantly. Then, out of nowhere, his world comes crashing down.

He gets bitten by the Millennium Bug.

Priam has been trying to alet his CEO to the Y2K computer date-senitive problem for months. When he finally gets through, his boss is so outraged at how much compliance will cost that he fires him. But this cloud has a silver lining. All his work researching the Millennium Bug enables Priam to start his own Y2K consulting firm. Soon he finds himself with more clients than he can handle - and more money than he'd ever dreamed of. In an effort to protect his family from the coming economic and social typhoon, he moves to a remote country farmhouse.

And that's when his real troubles begin.

He's the only one with a possible solution to perhaps the biggest potential foul-up from Y2K - the embedded chip problem. With billions of these minute devices scattered throughout the world in everything from cell phones to surgical equipment, the failure of even a small percentage of them could be disastrous. Priam alone has the answer. And somebody wants to take it from him, in the worst way.

As the end of the millennium approaches, markets crash, banks fold, and the world is thrown into panic. Priam retreats to his remote farmhouse in middle Tennessee, thinking his foresight has saved him and his family, only to find he hasn't prepared for the one thing he could never have anticipated.