Breaking Backbones: From Chaos to Order
About this ebook
From their hideout at the Russian River, Cy and her freedom hackers are using Telos to systematically dismantle Damian Strandeski’s criminal empire and redistribute the criminal gains to victims, the needy, and important social causes, reigning in a new era of innovation and sustainable technology. Ying, meanwhile, is using a copy of Telos at an estate in France to get revenge against those who interned her family in the work camps. She is also using Telos to find her missing husband, reported dead four years earlier, but who Ying discovers is very much alive—and with another woman.
With larger forces coming after Telos, a cyberwar erupts, taking out power in America, France and China, and pushing Ying and Cy closer together, ultimately forcing them to make the most difficult decisions of their lives.
About the author
Deb Radcliff was the first journalist to make cybercrime a reporting beat starting in 1995. Throughout her career, she’s met smart and talented hackers, cybercops, intelligence officers, and vigilantes who are the basis of the colorful fictional characters described in her stories. She has won several awards for her coverage, including the most prestigious Neal Award (twice) for business investigative reporting. She is a speaker, writer, and thought leader who is still embedded in the communities she portrays in these stories.
