The Exploit sees Daniel Scanlan frighteningly highlighting the growing dangers of cyberspace warfare in the hands of a megalomaniac with the tools to start entire wars.
After missing out on capturing the infamous and deadly hacker Dantalion, FBI Special Agent Ericka Blackwood has gone off the grid to take him down. When Dantalion resurfaces, this time with an audacious hack that involves US drones invading Pakistani airspace, Ericka must come back in from the cold and finish the job once and for all before he can trick volatile nations into a nuclear war.
Building up on the lore of hacking and hackers from the first book, Daniel Scanlan continues to both impress and scare readers with brilliant technologies that make it possible to create a more dangerous and exploitative world today. Both Ericka and Dandelion employ cutting edge and ingenious techniques to trap the other, almost like a cutthroat game of chess in cyberspace. Each feels like the perfect nemesis for the other, hungry to strike at each other with the most brutal computational moves at hand.
The action is carved out not in the conventional weapons but through computer code that looks for disastrous vulnerabilities in supposedly secured systems. There are some superbly crafted aerial combat sequences that stand out in the execution and details which put you in front and center of the rip-roaring action.
The Exploit is an awe-striking heat-seeking missile of a thriller with a compelling narrative supercharged by memorable main characters and timely warnings about a future where everything can be manipulated at the touch of a button. Daniel Scanlan is playing in the big leagues!
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