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Exciting, violent, thoughtful, and unfortunately true to life ...a powerhouse of computer adventure. Piers Anthony, author of the classic XANTH series

Read PeaceMaker and you'll never see your computer in quite the same way again. I kept watching my laptop for smoke while I wrote this review... Mr. Ronco has a flair. I'm sure we'll see his work for years to come. Jeanette Cottrell, Reviewer, eBook Reviews Weekly, Author of Sliding on Rainbows

Book Description

PeaceMaker, a start-at-a-dead-run science fiction thriller, is set in the near future, where software revolutionaries are pushing artificial intelligence to the brink of terrorism. The prologue plunges software architect Ray Brown into a life-or-death contest with PeaceMaker, a deadly artificial intelligence that has infected most of the world’s computing devices. His determination to eliminate PeaceMaker leads him into a dangerous conflict with the Domain – a clandestine organization dedicated to a new world order.

Humiliated by the federal government in an anti-trust trial that has torn apart her software company, CEO Dianne Morgan is obsessed with a plan to unleash PeaceMaker and shut down computer systems across the world. She is determined to crush the global economy unless the nations of the world agree to share power with the Domain. Although Dianne and Ray have never resolved a long simmering passion, she must hunt him down before he terminates PeaceMaker. As the Domain hunts Ray, Dianne learns of a mysterious third force that has discovered PeaceMaker and plans to attack the Domain. Dianne, Ray and this third force struggle for control, but PeaceMaker has its own plans.

PeaceMaker is based upon Dan's experience in senior management positions with Microsoft and other high-tech companies, where he gained insights into the amazing variety of people who build advanced technologies. Although PeaceMaker is speculative fiction, the characters have the ring of truth and the technology reflects research well underway in corporate and university laboratories.

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Born into a tough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, Dan Ronco learned powerful lessons about family, friendship and violence. His escape was fiction, and he spent many hours reading in the local library. Dan’s passion was technology and he went on to gain a BS in Chemical Engineering from NJIT. Not enough challenge. Always fascinated by new technologies, he was awarded a full fellowship at Columbia University and gained a MS in Nuclear Engineering. Although he designed submarine nuclear reactors for three years, Dan discovered that he enjoyed computer technologies more than reactor design, so he changed career direction and achieved a second MS; this one in Computer Science from RPI.

Fascinated by virtually all areas of software development, Dan’s expertise grew to include programming, design, project management, quality improvement and finally, general management. His niche was software consulting and he and his team assisted many large corporations and governmental organizations. Always looking for the latest challenge, Dan built and managed several consulting practices. He is especially proud of two accomplishments – assisting AT&T greatly improve the quality of the first commercial UNIX release and helping Microsoft to create a world class consulting organization. Positions held during his consulting years included Senior Principal with an international accounting/consulting firm, President, Software Technology Management Inc. and General Manager with Microsoft.

Six years ago Dan decided to leave consulting and concentrate on a long held desire to write fiction. A successful engineer and businessman, he had the breath of experience to understand and synthesize rapidly evolving strands of technology. It became clear to him that fundamental change would turn our society upside down within the next few decades. Humans will have to adapt rapidly to gain the advantages of these changing social and technological innovations. Indeed, we will have to adapt rapidly just to survive.

Dan has scoped out a trilogy of novels to expose three oncoming challenges; computer viruses enhanced with artificial intelligence (set in 2012), the oncoming clash between religion and technology concerning what it means to be human (2022), and the beginnings of the integration of human and artificial intelligence into a network entity (2032). Each novel is written as a thriller – packed with adventure, thrills, sex, greed and romance – as well as realistic science and technology. The three leading characters – Dianne Morgan, a female mega-billionaire obsessed with power; Ray Brown, her onetime lover and a brilliant software architect; and David Brown, Ray’s genetically gifted son – are fascinating and all too human.

PeaceMaker, his first novel, was released in August, 2004 with outstanding feedback by critics, authors, and most importantly, by customers. As one critic wrote, " If you enjoy techno-thrillers, you’re going to enjoy Peacemaker."