I can't find my copy, but did work out the name of the book. "In the Country of the Blind" by Michael Flynn. It was a good read if you like a psychohistorical detective adventure science fiction conspiracy thriller....Hee hee. Oh, and it also included the first description of a computer virus I'd ever read (when it came out in 1990--Heard far too much about them since, though....).

http://www.amazon.com/Country-Blind-Mich...3200&sr=8-2

Mike B in OKlahoma

"Never confuse with malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."