Wheelchair-bound since 1986, journalist Nick Stick Foster begins to spin his investigative magic when a NASA staffer is found enmeshed in a crab-line. Propjob the porpoise salvages a computer disk from the site, and Nick is on the roll. The bad guys stay at the edges, and the victim's beautiful and mysterious fianc? is as edgy as she is distraught. Stick gets close enough to the answer to be shot at and wind up in hospital, where he enlists his network of friendly computer whizzes to piece together what Woods learned: someone has locked a virus into a NASA system, guaranteeing an unpreventable disaster. And it might just happen, but the bad guys made one big mistake - they only wounded the smartest guy on wheels in Southern Florida. Split Seconds is the first book in the Stick Foster series, which also includes Mall Rats and A Matter of Perspective.