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September 22

A question about a detective or a thriller

Good afternoon. Sorry to bother not entirely on the subject of Wikipedia, but if an answer is found, I will definitely write an article on it. I am looking for one book from around 1990's or earlier. I only remember the beginning that the guy sat down at a certain orphaned computer and started working on it, then a man with a pistol approached him, they silently looked at each other, the guy abruptly pressed the enter button and at that second the man shot him. The piece must be pretty old before 2001. Help pliz who remembers. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 07:01, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are some closely related entries in TV Tropes: Dying Clue, Almost Dead Guy, Dead Man Writing, I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin, etc. This kind of thing happens often enough in mystery, spy, and thriller stories that it may be hard to find the specific book you're thinking of. The examples on TV tropes include novels, but they lean somewhat toward science fiction and fantasy. --Amble (talk) 19:22, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You might also try Category:Techno-thriller_novels and List of techno-thriller novels. --Amble (talk) 20:11, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See also Techno-Thriller by Ian Frazier in The Atlantic, May 2001. --Amble (talk) 20:48, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Amble: Thank you very much, I will study it! --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 09:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]