Zero Days
A cyber thriller
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Mr Robot in this tense cyber thriller
'Williams’s excellent sequel to 2017’s Beijing Smog … Williams creates vivid action scenes and convincingly draws even minor characters in this tale of a privacy-destroying big tech spying empire. Readily accessible to those with a minimal tech background, this scary cyber thriller deserves a wide readership' - Publishers Weekly
A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. It’s smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers working for a cybercrime syndicate. It can break through an unknown flaw in the world's most secure computer chips and cripple any system within seconds. It's the ultimate cyber weapon and it seems that everybody wants a part of it.
From Burma to Berlin, and to the new Cold War frontline of Ukraine, cyber sleuth Chuck Drayton and his small team of investigators are pitted against the great cyber powers and an unscrupulous tech billionaire in a desperate race to find the zero day and its shadowy creator.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Williams's excellent sequel to 2017's Beijing Smog finds computer hacker Chuck Drayton guilt-ridden over his failure to protect patients in an incident in which 14 people were killed by malfunctioning hospital devices infected with a computer virus. Drayton works with Interpol's multinational Berlin Group to track down and neutralize hackers responsible for "zero days" times when ransomware cripples worldwide computer systems. As intelligence agencies compete to buy zero days in a new international arms race, Drayton travels to Burma, Berlin, and Ukraine in pursuit of ever-shifting techno-villains. Williams creates vivid action scenes full of local color, and convincingly draws even minor characters in this tale of a privacy-destroying big tech spying empire, where "connected" household devices can become savage weapons. Echoes of the Stasi, the dreaded East German secret police who considered their entire population the enemy, also reverberate through this expos of the dangerous promise of technology to give people what they want even before they know it themselves. Readily accessible to those with a minimal tech background, this scary cyberthriller deserves a wide readership.
