- Title:
- Guerrilla Internet
- By:
- Matt Sayer
- Pages:
- 321
- Rating:
- 4
‘How careful are you with what you say in a phone call? In a text message? Are you strict enough to never reveal personal information in an email, or on Facebook? Most people aren’t.’
Charlie, a soon-to-be unemployed software tester struggling through remission from depression and anxiety, is about to discover just how lethal a weapon information can be in the wrong hands. When one of his colleagues is murdered for the sake of stealing his company’s innocuous in-development phone app, his life is upended and shaken like one of James Bond’s martinis. With the aid of Mel, a technologically illiterate but worldly-wise security guard, Charlie must conquer his inhibitions and venture outside his cloistered comfort zone in order to prevent a cyberterrorist conspiracy so devastating it threatens the very future of the internet itself…
A technological thriller set in modern times, Guerrilla Internet tackles the themes of privacy, security, and freedom of expression in the age of a constantly connected society. A tale of subterfuge and doublespeak, of plots within plots, where laws and morals clash to decide the meaning of freedom in an always-online world.
This was fun, and seeing inside the mind of someone suffering such things was a very new experience to me. This author has definite potential and this is a solid, if occasionally strange, novel.