The Ganymede Project — John Morrison

When a Russian-speaking FBI counterintelligence agent decides to bug the Russian Embassy, he gets more than he bargained for. The Russians have stumbled onto a U.S. program for exploiting Thought Tunneling Devices (TTDs) found in alien tissue at a UFO crash site. The technology has sweeping implications for both the U.S. information economy and for Russia, struggling to find its way in the New World Order. At stake is TTD technology, whose power is revealed in the death of a Russian diplomat--devoured by rats on a Washington, D.C. street--and related computer code able to penetrate any networked computer system, no matter how 'secure.' When both spy and counter-spy are pursued by the same killers, they conspire to obtain the extraordinary evidence required to prove extraordinary claims--details of Project Ganymede that can only be found by penetrating a foreign technology test site at Groom Dry Lake Base, Nevada. The technology that threatens to restart the Cold War ultimately proves elusive, when both Washington and the Russians learn that TTDs tap into a galactic Internet, and the owners of the patent don't like intruders.