Kill Process

· Kill Chain Book 1 · William Hertling
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By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women.

When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users’ fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is—another evil abuser. Using her coding and hacking expertise, she decides to destroy Tomo by building a new social network that is completely distributed, compartmentalized, and unstoppable. If she succeeds, it will be the end of all centralized power in the Internet. 

But how can an anti-social, one-armed programmer with too many dark secrets succeed when the world’s largest tech company is out to crush her and a no-name government black ops agency sets a psychopath to look into her growing digital footprint? 

“Awesome, thrilling, and creepy: a fast-paced portrayal of the startup world, and the perils of our personal data and technical infrastructure in the wrong hands.”
—Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group 

“His most ambitious work yet. A murder thriller about high tech surveillance and espionage in the startup world. Like the best of Tom Clancy and Barry Eisner.”
—Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project

“Explores the creation and effects of the templated self, the rise of structured identity and one-size-fits-all media culture, and feasible alternatives.”
—Amber Case, author of Calm Technology

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4.5
22 reviews
Svetlozar Mladenov
December 7, 2017
Started off in a weird way, as I am familiar with author's other books (Avogadro Corp. series). I mean, initially I thought Kill Process was exactly about a process (computer term), but just before the sample started running low, the true story revealed its face. And I enjoyed it very much. Intriguing story made a good book. Recommended.
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ImaCountryGirl
January 15, 2017
From the moment I started reading, I couldn't put the book down. Well except for bathroom breaks and granola bar snacks. The book was slightly above my level of computer speak though I had heard most of the terms before. OK. It was downright scary what hackers can do, and I will be keeping a closer eye on everything I own with a computer chip in it. The story line was believable and the quirky characters just made it more interesting. The story left me wanting to know "Does Thomas have an older brother?"
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David Allen
March 24, 2018
Coding, hacking, startups, nsa, conspiracy - whats not to like!
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About the author

William Hertling is the author of Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears, A.I. Apocalypse, The Last Firewall, and The Turing Exception. His near-term science-fiction novels about realistic artificial intelligence have been called "frighteningly plausible", "tremendous", and "must reads". 

Born in Brooklyn, New York, William Hertling grew up a digital native in the early days of bulletin board systems. His first experiences with net culture occurred when he wired seven phone lines into the back of his Apple //e to build an online chat system. He’s been influenced by writers such as William Gibson, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, and Walter Jon Williams. 

He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Follow him on twitter at @hertling or visit his blog williamhertling.com.

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