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And both Elizabeth and David end up in a world of trouble..
International piracy has very high stakes and some very evil players.
Each one intuits that the other is their real competition but can\'t prove it.
David and Elizabeth fight for dominance of the computer systems controlling ore drop placement in international waters.
Ten years later, David works in the shadows for international thieves, and Elizabeth prevents international space piracy.
With robotic mining in space has become a lucrative part of the economy, and shipments from space are dropped down the gravity well into the oceans.
Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a military job after graduating.
David is amoral, out for himself, and soon disappears.
Cambias, author of A Darkling Sea, now gives readers a thrilling near-future adventure of space pirates and computer hackers in CorsairIn the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT and have a brief affair.
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