| Darknet Contributor(s): Mather, Matthew (Author), Taylorson, Tom (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1481523813 ISBN-13: 9781481523813 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Technological - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.20 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the bestselling author of CyberStorm comes a wild ride through the Wall Street underworld.One minute Jake O'Connell is on top of the world with a beautiful family and bright future as a stock broker in New York; the next, it's all ripped away when he's embroiled in a fraud investigation, his childhood friend is murdered, and he finds himself on the run. Dodging the FBI and targeted by the Mob, Jake is thrown into a Wall Street underworld of cryptocurrencies and autonomous corporations, where he discovers a dark secret setting the world on a path to destruction. He must evade the shadowy forces hunting him and find a way to redemption--but the faster he runs, the deeper he becomes entangled. In the end, his only path forward is to return to the ghosts of his past.Darknet is a journey into the back alleys of global finance and cyber espionage, the story of one man's quest to redeem himself and save his family. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mather, Matthew: - Matthew Mather is the bestselling author of CyberStorm and The Atopia Chronicles. He is also a leading member of the world's cybersecurity community who started out his career working at the McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines. He went on to found one of the first tactile-interface companies, which became the world leader in its field, and to create a major award-winning brain-training video game. In between, he has worked in a variety of start-ups, from computational nanotechnology to electronic health records, weather prediction systems to genomics, and even social-intelligence research. Taylorson, Tom: -Tom Taylorson is a three-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. He is a Chicago-based actor with over a decade of stage experience. In that time he also built a voice-over career and now primarily works as a voice actor. He is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, teaching voice-over for interactive media. |