The Book
The Ministry of Finance hired Carlos Navarro to drag Guatemala into the computer age. Somewhere inside the machine he built — beneath the payroll runs and the tax rolls — something else is running.
Read more →GhostCode
The ghost inside the machine.
A novel by Ric Urrutia — coming soon.
Guatemala, 1972. A brilliant engineer builds his country's first great computer system — and discovers what it was really built to do.
The World
The true story behind the novel — Guatemala in the 1970s, the machines, and the men who built them.
Step inside →The Author
Ric Urrutia was born in Coatepeque, Guatemala, in 1959, the son of the engineer hired to run the country's first mainframe. Ghost Code is his first novel.
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