Beetroot Plot (The)

Nicolas Bokov

Available material: Finished copy

N° of pages: 192 p.

Retail price in euros: 14 €

Gaston Mba, an African computer scientist, falls in love with Tamiko, a Japanese pianist. With his computer named Jerry, an autonomous and intelligent “super-machine”, he can penetrate the most inaccessible systems. Gaston has to foil the plans of a group of Moscow-based hackers: with ties to the former KGB, the hackers infiltrate the Council of Europe’s IT network to steal sugar-beet production data. Beetroot, the energy source of the future: the Russians are afraid that Europe starts producing bio-fuels. Gaston foils the hackers’ plans and destroys the Muscovite computers tied to the plot. But Russian spies are on his trail and manage to poison him with Polonium-210. With Gaston at death’s door; a desperate Tamiko flies off to Japan to end her life. On a sacred mountain, she realizes that she is carrying his child, and abandons her intention of killing herself. Then she finds out that Gaston has been saved. An African computer scientist foils Russian hackers’ plot to infiltrate the Council of Europe’s computer network to steal data about an energy revolution.

Click to enlarge

Noir Sur Blanc

Available translation rights

By the same author

• Déjeuner au bord de la Baltique (Noir Sur Blanc)
• On the Street in Paris (Noir Sur Blanc)
• The Conversion (Noir Sur Blanc)
• The Response Zone (Noir Sur Blanc)