Zero Days: A Cyber Thriller

by Ian Williams

Overview

A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. But this bug is different. 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—the ultimate cyber weapon. Reluctant American cyber sleuth Chuck Drayton unwittingly finds himself caught in the deadly crossfire of an unfolding cyber war, with no idea what lies ahead. Chuck and his small team of investigators join a desperate race against the great cyber powers, and an unscrupulous tech entrepreneur, to stop the zero-day, before it’s too late.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913062026
Publisher:	RedDoor Press
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Ian Williams is an award-winning journalist. He covered business for the Sunday Times before becoming a foreign correspondent, eventually working for NBC. In 2017 he published his first novel, Beijing Smog. 

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/23/2020

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 exposé 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. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"Excellent...this scary cyberthriller deserves a wide readership.”–Publishers Weekly starred review

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