Comic Book Synopsis / Plot
Doc Savage has his aides review a
cyberterrorism case from 1995 as it has a bearing on the current
mystery. Happy and Axum, who were there at the time, fill the others
in....
It was Axum's first week on the team
and Happy was showing him around Doc's huge operation. That's when
the trouble hit: financial systems all over the nation were thrown
into chaos, from the largest banks to the smallest accounts, all
databases were being wiped clean. The team went to find Doc, who was
at the World Trade Center, trying to talk a criminal out of jumping
to his death; the kid leaps—and Doc leaps after him, snagging him
in mid-air and opening his parachute to float them gently to the
ground. The affected banks all had new desktop computers purchased
from the same source; Doc traces the processors to a manufacturer in
China—one that had recently had a break-in, though nothing was
taken. A fingerprint left at the crime scene in China belongs to
hacker Andre Hendrix who is now in Ukraine demanding a mysterious
object kept at a certain factory. Doc and company capture him and his
gang but the factory's owner, American Peter Weaver, insists on the
case being handled locally, refusing to allow Doc entry to the
building....
Summing up, Pat explains that they
never found out what it was that Hendrix was after. Doc Savage
arrives and reveals that all these cases are part of a larger web—and
Peter Weaver is the one sitting at the center....