Published in 1991 and released into the public domain by the author, Terminal Compromise is a techno-thriller by Winn Schwartau, a pioneering American information security expert. The novel envisions large-scale cyberattacks against American infrastructure at a time when such threats were barely on the public radar — making it remarkably prescient.
Schwartau later became a prominent voice on information warfare, and this novel stands as an early artifact of the genre that would grow to encompass much of twenty-first-century thriller fiction. Download the free EPUB at Better Gutenberg and read the book that imagined the connected world’s vulnerabilities.