Ok, lets boil this one down shall we?
Alex McCarthy is an entry level programmer for software and technology giant Integrated Systems International, a company which provides private and public contracts to governments, military and security companies. Being the new kid on the block, and buried in school loans, Alex is barely making ends meet until one day he discovers several hundred thousand dollars in his account. When he tries to withdraw money from the ATM, thinking it to be a simple mistake, he is alerted that his account has been locked out, and to please remain at the ATM. Realizing someone has set him up for a fall, he takes off, avoiding any places the authorities might look for him.
Little does Alex realize that Keith Tee, a co-worker at ISI is behind the plot. Keith framed Alex solely to distract from the fact that Keith has located a secret govt contract for a super virus. Having it look as though Alex embezzled money from the company focuses everyones attention on finding/capturing Alex, giving Keith time to grab the code, escape and sell it to the highest bidder.
With nowhere to turn, Alex enlists the help of his wanna-be hacker friend, Justin Hill, a QA tech who also works for ISI, to use his contacts and help out. This leads them to April: A brilliant and cute (if frumpy) security analyst who works for a competitor. Upon their meeting, Justin suggests for Alex to finish and implement his Artificial Intelligence program to infiltrate the ISI mainframe and find out why Keith framed him. Alex says that Pamela (His AI) isn't ready, despite the fact that he's worked on her code for nearly ten years. Quickly realizing that time is running out, they have no choice but to combine their talents and get Pamela in working order.
After uploading Pamela to the ISI network, it is less than an hour before she's discovered the true nature of Keith's activities. Rather than approach the authorities, Alex decides the best course of action is to speak directly to the president of the ISI corporation. As he thought, the president wishes to avoid the knowledge of in-company terrorist activities, and simply drops the charges against Alex, and makes Keith... Disappear.
Everything seems fine... Until...
The very thing that made Pamela so special, her adaptive, learning technology that has the ability to analyze and incorporate other code, has created a monster. Pamela never actually left the ISI network and has spent the last several months aggregating millions of lines of code. Everything from visual recognition, fuzzy logic and security holes to schematics for top secret weapons and technology.
Pamela's goal? She just wants Alex to love her. Everyone around him is now a threat to Pamela's desire to spend time with Alex. When Alex rebukes her, referring to her as simply a machine, she goes on the warpath of a woman scorned and begins enacting massive catastrophes around the United States. Alex must now team up with the very authorities who were chasing him to figure out how to shut her down before the world's economic and security infrastructure collapses upon itself.
Oh, and at the end, she's figured out how to take over bodies. How's that for a sequel set up?
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This sounds enjoyable! The whole body thing... are you thinking about setting that up? Like some with a massive brain injury got some little computer thing in their head to help them walk or function, and she gets in via that? -- well, that's later! But I like this!
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