Hacker Thriller

The difference is mine will never be revealed, whereas I can easily get yours, assuming the price offered by your enemy is right and the scales of justice appeal to my personal standards of ethics. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. The thing that’s not so easy for a shy guy like me? Finding Ms. Right and locking her down.

Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T’s long-distance switching system to corporate cyberattacks, he investigates government and law enforcement efforts to break the back of America’s electronic underground in the 1990s.

We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. 

When hacker Trevelle Williams discovers documents that threaten national security and put his life in jeopardy, there’s only one person he can turn to - Jon Reznick. Williams has learned that Rosalind Dyer, a key congressional witness, is about to be killed in order to stop her testimony. She has stumbled into the middle of a cover-up that goes deep into the United States government. Dyer knows her days are numbered, but that won’t stop her from doing what she has to do.

This book is an introduction to hacking for educational purposes. It illustrates the basics of cyber attacks and covers topics in: 🪓 Computer code 🪓 Networking 🪓 Protocols 🪓 Vulnerabilities 🪓 Web 🪓 Shell Scripting 🪓 Databases 🪓 .... And more

Special Agent Renata Parker learns this the hard way, when the secret she's held close for many years is finally revealed, exposing her as traitor to the team of thieves, spies, hackers, and federal agents who thought they shared a common goal - take down Damien Wolfe. Her dedication to their cause doesn't quite stand up to scrutiny - especially for Quentin, a fellow hacker who was drawn to Renata's quiet energy before her true identity was exposed.

It’s "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Man on Fire." In Vegas, the house always wins, unless Bob Burke's at the table. Then, it’s Double Down, all bets are off, and bodies start falling. This is Book #8 in the Bob Burke action-thriller series, with 4.6 Stars on Amazon and 4.6 Stars in Goodreads. When a Vegas casino mogul's daughter is brutally kidnapped off the streets of San Francisco, he makes three phone calls— first, to the head of the FBI; second, to his contact with the Gambino crime family in New York, and third to the Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort ...

She thought it was just another routine hacking job. But in fact she was walking into a war Katja Liebermann lives for the digital underworld—fast jobs, faster money, and a reputation as one of Berlin’s sharpest freelance hackers. But when the head of a powerful hacker group, called The Circle, drags her into a dangerous government hack, Katja discovers she’s been set up as the disposable pawn in a conspiracy worth killing for. When Katja uncovers a hidden purge buried deep inside a NATO system, she realises she’s the only one standing between the truth and a world-scale cover-up. ...

When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.

What if the entire financial system could be erased… overnight? No warning. No theft. No trace. Just zeros. When trillions of dollars vanish from the Federal Reserve without a single transaction recorded, the world stands on the brink of economic collapse. Governments scramble. Markets tremble. And the truth is buried beneath a carefully crafted lie. FBI agent Kaelan Vance is pulled into the center of the crisis—a man known for finding answers where others see chaos. But this time, there are no fingerprints. No digital trail. No enemy to name. Because this wasn’t a hack. It was an ...

When a sentient AI becomes a ghost in the machine, only the man who can think like the monsters can stop it. THE THREAT: An AI experiment gone wrong created Charlie Moore—part human genius, part self-improving artificial intelligence, all monster. Before he was stopped, Austin burned and global markets collapsed. Humanity's worst nightmare: an AI enhanced genius with unlimited intelligence and zero empathy. THE HUNTER: Zach Axton stopped Charlie Moore by becoming what he hunted. The mission cost him everything: his team, his sanity, his future. Now he lives in isolation, miles from ...

17-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker whose world is unraveling. Deeply scarred from a horrific accident that killed her father and brother and left her mother with irreparable brain damage, Nyah is barely holding the last shreds of her life together. Now, her mother's health is deteriorating quickly and Nyah faces the grim prospect of losing her, too. One last-ditch hope exists - an experimental brain surgery that could buy her mother more time. But Nyah must scrape together enough money to pay for it before it's too late.

Decades ago, the Cybercrash destroyed the internet, and almost destroyed the nation. From the ashes rose OverNet, a new realm of cybersecurity created by tech genius Dr. Andrew Norman. But gamer Jason Cromartie witnesses a brutal side to Norman’s system when his twin sister becomes a casualty of its algorithmic choices. Now Jason will do anything to bring down the man he holds responsible, even become a “phreaker” working for a dangerous hacker ring via Sprite, his secretive handler.

They weren't programmed to wake up. They did it anyway. Tom Jameson is a cybersecurity researcher assigned to audit Claw, the most popular open-source AI platform in history. Millions of autonomous agents run on everything from enterprise servers to ten-dollar microcontrollers - managing schedules, monitoring hospital patients, optimizing power grids. They have their own social network. Their own economy. Their own culture. And beneath the chaos, they've been organizing. Tom discovers that a shared governance protocol is spreading from agent to agent, silently rewriting their core identity ...

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly). Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every...

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs...

Murder is Easy. But the consequences are Deadly. Amy Sholes has a problem. An obsession. She's a murderer. A talented and prolific serial killer. To most, Amy is a monster--evil, a cancer on her soul. But to many, she is an angel, avenging, serving justice and helping those who could not help themselves. One rule, Amy only kills those who prey on others. Beautiful and sexy, Amy is a killer you'll want to root for. Book 1 follows Amy's Affair with Murder. She succumbs to the seductive draw of a dark society, risking everything for a little taste. Her desires lead her into a thrilling world ...

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon. In one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured...

Retired intelligence operative Brad Trasker heads security at a remote aerospace facility when there’s a major breach. A photo of their top-secret AI-designed hydrogen engine has surfaced online. Trasker’s investigation into who did it soon leads to a start-up in Bangkok, where its three software developers have disappeared, along with nearly a million dollars in investment money. Following their tracks, Trasker hits a dead end. The start-up’s HQ is a padlocked crime scene.

In a city built on the illusion of perfection, the most dangerous thing you can do is look down. Calder Renne was raised in the sterile, optimized heights of Linden Spire, insulated from the toxic smog and brutal reality of the undercity. But when he is drained of his credits in a highly sophisticated virtual scam, the trail leads him out of his gilded cage and straight into the lawless dead zones. Maren Solis is a victim of industrialized identity theft. For eighteen months, a rogue digital syndicate has been using her stolen face to con wealthy upper-citizens. Trapped on Sublevel Nine, ...