Diane's Baptism
An undeclared war rages between the Blackeagle/Blackeagle Security and Investigations Corporation and the fundamentalist terrorists of the World Islamic Jihad. New, rookie Blackeagle operatives are being killed as fast as they are recruited, despite the best precautions that the company can take. Diane Grace Stewart is the corporation’s newest and youngest employee. Crippled in a terrorist attack by the World Islamic Jihad three years before and restricted to a wheelchair, she is only eighteen years old and still fresh from high-school. Although young and inexperienced, she has skills that the elite security company can use. In a world where knowledge is power, her talent lies in her ability to extract information from computer systems: hacking.
As her New York Blackeagle cell takes on the task of recovering a missing cybertank, she must survive the threat of an assassination squad who know more about her than she does herself, and prove herself to a team that doesn’t trust their new colleague. In a world where even the opposition's computer experts go armed with a Heckler & Koch alongside their Virtual Reality rigs, Diane must face her own personal demons before the hardened veterans of Blackeagle will accept her.