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The White Tower, a sequel to The Trojan Dog opens with Sandra Mahoney and Ivan Semonyov running a computer security consultancy together.

The White Tower - Story Outline

The White Tower begins by investigating the suicide of a young man, Niall Howley. Obsessed by an interactive computer game, Niall's death, caused by jumping from a telecomunications tower in the heart of Canberra, mimics in an eerie way the virtual death scripted for him in the game.

Niall's mother, Myra, asks Sandra Mahoney to help her understand her son's addiction, and what drove him to take his own life.

The game has been shut down, but Sandra corresponds with some former players, who knew Niall as his on-line character, Ferdia, and tries to give his mother what support she can. She travels to Ireland to meet the owner of the game, a man called Sorley Fallon, who has suspected links with underground Irish politics.

While she is away, Ivan uncovers a list of numbers on Niall's computer. The investigation changes direction after Sandra and Ivan learn that the numbers refer to radiation accidents involving one of the linear accelerators in the hospital where Niall worked. Pressure increases on the hospital staff, as Sandra, and now her friend Brook, a Detective-Sergeant with the Federal police, discover more about them. Did Niall jump from the Telstra Tower, as the game and the evidence surrounding it suggests? Or was he pushed and, if so, who did the pushing?

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