Book excerpt: The Rands Conspiracy takes the reader on a Bourne-style chase as Josh and his development team run for their lives after creating an experimental spyware program for the powerful government funded Rands Group. Josh Borland was taking unemployment rather well. His sudden termination from the Rands Group was unexpected, but he was vacationing in the sun and the sand with others in the same virtual boat. In the morning Josh finds himself hung over but alive. In fact, he is the only one still alive. Josh does his best to gather his friends from Rands in order to unravel the mystery, but more importantly, to keep them alive. The Rands Conspiracy is a short, fast-paced and absorbing novel foreshadowing what may well become the experience of citizens worldwide a mere five years down the road. Beverly Eakman, columnist & award-winning author. Vist the author at JonBatson