Fiction and nonfiction
Three Jeff Aiken cyberthrillers, a companion short story, and the standard technical references for Windows internals and the Sysinternals tools.
Fiction
Zero Day
4.0 on Amazon · 1,190 ratings
An airliner falls from the sky. A nuclear reactor nearly melts down. An oil tanker runs aground. Jeff Aiken and Daryl Haugen believe these incidents are the result of a massive cyber attack that’s under way — and the clock is ticking as they race to figure out who is behind it and how to stop it.
Trojan Horse
4.2 on Amazon · 597 ratings
Two years after Zero Day, Jeff Aiken is reaping the rewards for crippling al-Qaida’s attack on the computer infrastructure of the Western world. His cyber-security company is flourishing, and his relationship with Daryl Haugen intensifies when she becomes a part of his team.
Rogue Code
4.4 on Amazon · 506 ratings
Called in to investigate a possible breach at the New York Stock Exchange, Jeff Aiken discovers that the system has been infiltrated — and that someone on the inside knows, yet has allowed the hackers to keep stealing millions from trading accounts.
Operation Desolation
3.9 on Amazon · 218 ratings
Jeff Aiken has to protect a company from an attack by the hacktivist group Anonymous — and discovers that the hackers plan to bring their fight offline and into the real world.
Technical books
Windows Internals, Part 1
4.8 on Amazon · 483 ratings
The definitive guide to Windows system architecture — processes, threads, memory management, security, and more — with hands-on experiments that use the Sysinternals tools to observe internal behavior firsthand.
Windows Internals, Part 2
4.8 on Amazon · 164 ratings
Covers the I/O system, storage, memory compression, virtualization, the caching and file systems, and diagnostics — updated through Windows 10 and Windows Server 2022.
Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools
4.6 on Amazon · 366 ratings
The official guide to the Sysinternals utilities, with deep coverage of Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and Autoruns, plus real-world troubleshooting workflows drawn from the field.
Earlier editions: Windows Internals, 6th Edition5th Edition4th EditionSysinternals Administrator’s Reference