A multi-millionaire entrepreneur with a bent for murder, and a talent for creating bizarre and aptly-named killing machines, implements his latest business plan: interactive pay-per-view executions, live on the Internet.

First a ruthless drug dealer is torn to pieces by the "Rehabinator." A pedophile is dispatched by controlled lightning from the liquid-Taser "Pediphryer." And a crime boss is electrocuted with the "Lesso-lator", all with a click of the killer's F10 button. And then another and another...

It's all live on the Internet, and the paying public lines up for the chance to "pull the trigger." A crackpot scientist who's almost as mad as the genius behind the killings holds the key to bursting his dot.com bubble. A free-lance writer and a rogue FBI computer geek must use it to unlock the secret of his identity and stop the killings before they become the next prime-time  broadcast.

Screenshot: a techno-thriller with a provocative premise.