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Darknet Kindle Edition

by Matthew Mather (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 7,580 ratings
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From the author of CyberStorm comes an an adrenaline-fueled mystery with a noir/tech edge that takes readers to a new edge of the cyber world.


A GLOBAL CORPORATION HIDES A DARK SECRET…
A TERRIFYING NEW ADVANCE IN TECHNOLOGY…
WILL BE REVEALED.


Follow one man’s journey through a shadowy underworld that threatens the security of humanity.

In a world where corporations have the same rights as human beings…
Profit is everything and psychopathic executives call the shots…
Anything is possible.

Jake O'Connell leaves a life of crime and swears he'll never return, but his new life as a stock broker in New York is ripped away when his childhood friend Sean Womack is murdered.

Thousands of miles away in Hong Kong, scientist Jin Huang finds a list of wealthy dead people in a massive banking conspiracy. Problem is, some of the people don't stay dead. As Jin begins her investigation, she's petrified to discover her own name on the growing list of dead-but-alive.

On the run, Jake O'Connell and Jin Huang race across continents to uncover a dark secret spreading like a cancer into the world. Why was Sean killed, and how is the list of wealthy dead connected? Are some of them really coming back to life? But all this becomes irrelevant when Jake's family is attacked...

About the Author

Translated into 18 languages, published in 23 countries, with multiple TV and movie contracts including 20th Century Fox developing his second novel, CyberStorm, for a major film release, Matthew Mather's books are worldwide bestsellers. He began his career at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines researching artificial intelligence before starting high-tech ventures in everything from computational nanotechnology to electronic health records to weather prediction systems. He now works as a full-time author of speculative fiction.

Darknet has ranked as a top best seller in Amazon’s techno thriller, conspiracy, and science fiction categories, and if you enjoy A.G. Riddle, Hugh Howey, and Michael Crichton, then you'll love this new thriller based in the world of bitcoin and cryptocurrency the New York Times called "the inspiration for Utopian dreams".
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Mather creates characters you've known your whole life, and matches them with science and technology you can believe in." BOING BOING, editor Jason Weisberger (Aug 2015)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Matthew Mather is much more than just a successful writer of speculative fiction...his writing in many ways feels prescient. A wildly creative imagination, smart ideas, a gift for conversational interplay, and keen sense of timing, make his worlds come alive...traits that make Matthew's books so poignant to a very large audience." Grady Harp, Hall of Fame Top 100 Reviewer, Amazon Vine Voice
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Matthew Mather is one of my favorite finds in the indie space in the last few years." BOING BOING, editor Jason Weisberger (Aug 2015)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Brilliant...authors like Mather are leading the way. " WIRED MAGAZINE, GeekDad editor Eric Wecks (Jan 2014)

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Matthew Mather earned international bestseller status (Amazing Stories Magazine, Feb 2019) when his second novel CyberStorm was translated into over twenty-four languages and reached the bestseller charts in Spain, Finland, South Korea and more, and sold over a million copies(Amazing Stories Magazine, Feb 2019). He has earned multiple film and television deals, including development for film by 20th Century Fox(Deadline Hollywood, July 2013) and NBC Universal.

He has won the coveted Best Science Fiction Book of the Year award (Discover SciFi, June 2016) award from the Authors' on Air Global network, as well as being a GoodReads Award winner (GoodReads, March 2014) and ranking as the #1 Amazon US bestseller in rankings for suspense, mystery, conspiracy, techno-thriller, and science fiction categories (April 2015, Feb 2016, May 2018).
Mather has accumulated over 70,000 ratings on his books CyberStorm, Polar Vortex, Nomad,and others on the GoodReads, Audible, and Amazon websites.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00R52OLSI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Matthew Mather ULC (March 11, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 11, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Amazon Charts Bestseller Matthew Mather's books have sold millions of copies, accumulated over 100,000 ratings on Goodreads, Audible and Amazon, been translated and published in over 24 countries across the globe, and optioned for multiple movie and television contracts. He began his career as a researcher at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines before starting and working in high-tech ventures ranging from nanotechnology to cyber security. He now works as a full-time author of speculative and science fiction thrillers.

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This had a lot of the elements I loved from the movie Enemy of the State. I enjoyed the mix of psychological & action thriller elements. What’s creepier than knowing your personal information is available to anyone with skills and a computer? How about that info being used to predict your every move, frame you for horrible crimes, or hunt you to your death?The beginning was a little slow due to the number of main characters and foundational info, but once it got going I really enjoyed it. There were twists and turns as each side tried to predict and thwart the other. I liked that the main characters were every day people who worked together to solve the mysteries and keep each other alive.The ending was solid and I liked the epilogue-ish chapter. I’ll definitely be checking out more from Mather.Narration:I specifically chose this because Tom Taylorson narrates. As always, he does a good job giving all the characters unique voices & accents consistent with the writing. Delivery was seamless. Gripping listen.
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Tony Parsons
5.0 out of 5 stars thriller
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2018
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8/11, Long Island, NY Atlas Capital Office building. Jake O'Connell (35, stock broker) was giving Danny Donovan (Atlas Capital founder/CEO, Harvard) his agenda for the day.
Danny had been indicted on federal money laundering charges.
Bank of China. Mr. Yamamoto, & Shen Shi Heng (consultant) were meeting/discussing this matter.
Mr. Yamamoto suddenly had a serious health issue.
Mrs. O'Connell (mother) had some horrible news for Jake.

London England. Sean Womack (Jake’s BMF) was dead.
Liu Wei “Wutang”, & Jin Huang (f, Northeastern/Guangdong U), had been working on the Ministry of Public Security project.
Mr. Yamamoto had been whacked.
Shen Shi Heng (consultant) had plummeted to death down an open elevator shaft.
The SEC served Jake legal investigation papers. Now he was arrested/charged for rape of Susie (Jake’s asst.).
Cormac Ryker (linguistics, US Army 82nd Airborne Division, Iraqi, Afghanistan x 2) was keeping a sharp eye on him.
Shenzhen, China. What happened to Jin Huang (29, data scientist)?
Elle O’Connor (wife/mother, Columbia, infectious diseases researcher) had bailed Jake out.

What happened to Danny Donovan (former Atlas Capital founder/CEO, Harvard)?
It seems Senator Russ is the next hopeful Presidential candidate.
NYC. What news does Charlie Wade (NBC Daily reporter) have for the area/world?

I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review. Only an honest one.

A very awesome book cover, great font & writing style. A very well written international thriller book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a large set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great international thriller movie, or better yet a mini TV series. A very easy rating of 5 stars.

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Tghu Verd
4.0 out of 5 stars Let's all hope this is not the future
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2015
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This is a very topical novel, which plugs into the increasingly realistic concern of "AI runs amok". The technology presented is as up-to-date as you can get and while the main protagonist is way beyond the current state of the art, the science of artificial intelligence is accelerating so it is not unbelievable, just a little bit "in the future". Which is worrying on many levels...

But to back to the novel. This is a really fast paced techno thriller. For the most part it is rooted in the here and now, so we get various locations - London, New York, Shanghai - as you'd know them if you live there or visited recently. What readers probably don't generally know are the gritty details that underpin unsavory aspects of the Internet that most of us do not care to travel, but rest assured that Mather has done his homework and for the most part what's presented is as realistic as it reads. If you don't care for computer gobbledygook then you might skim a little when Mather drills into the details, but it is not a 'geek read' and anything overtly technical is usually couched in a convenient analogy that makes it accessible.

The plot is actually very straightforward, but the pacing is frantic. You can see from the "Look Inside" that one character dies in the first few pages and that merely sets the scene for global murder and mayhem with main man Jake O'Connell pushed to the limits as his world is upended and seemingly unstoppable forces are arrayed against him and his family.

Fortunately (of course) he has some allies - both known to him and others unexpected - who he can lean on as the scope of the menace is revealed and the order of magnitude to solve the problem rockets out of sight. In some regards, those allies are way too convenient but for the sake of the story - and because Mather does not give you much time to think about it - I found myself happy to go along with it. I was less happy with the mechanics of the ending, however. Seemed just a little too pat for the degree of difficulty that have been presented, but in all honesty, it was an unexpected conclusion and I'd be hard pressed to think of anything less obvious.

Mather's characters are generally fully fleshed, their actions consistent and they exhibit a range of emotions. I felt Jake was introduced as an unlikeable chap, but that passed fortunately and as his distress and stress ratcheted up he actually became more likable. It was interesting how his wife reacted to the situation and even more interesting how Jake reacted to her reacting to that.

So, a very fun read loaded with action and hosting many characters dodging many bullets, both literal and metaphorical. The underlying threat is fortunately not real...yet...but watch this space. Because "Darknet" could easily be ranked with Arthur C. Clarke's prescient description of satellites in a decade or two to come.
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Curtis Blair
5.0 out of 5 stars scary possible
Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2022
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Entertaining, thought provoking, and a little scary. It’s not to hard to believe the events in this story as happening soon, if not already occurring in some form right now. As always, Mr. Mather has written a thoroughly researched and well written novel.
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Fabiano Sipahi
5.0 out of 5 stars Boa ficção!
Reviewed in Brazil on October 12, 2018
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Bem elaborada, quase um roteiro de filme.
Vale a pena ler e imaginar como será em pouquíssima tempo.
Fica a dica.
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Viorel
4.0 out of 5 stars Darknet un libro da leggere
Reviewed in Italy on January 13, 2018
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Una storia molto complessa. Riesce a mantenere il lettore in uno stato di continuo interesse. Una lettura piacevole che consigliò a ogni amante del genere.
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Clare O'Beara
5.0 out of 5 stars Darknet
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2016
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This reads well as an interesting and fun technothriller. Jake is upset by news of his friend's death, then baffled when it appears that he was speaking to Sean on the phone days after he was killed by a bus. He looks into the matter and ends up investigating Bluebridge, a vast corporation that buys and sells futures - gambling on the prices of shares and commodities. At present the majority of market trades are being made by complex algorithms in fast computers so Bluebridge is headquartered near Wall Street for fast broadband trades. Oddly for such a big company, Bluebridge has been laying off staff, and senior people have been dying. Who is actually running it, and how come the few seniors left are making appearances at meetings in different parts of the country on the same day? But as Jake investigates he runs into trouble, of the kind that comes with estrangement from his wife and kidnap of their young daughter.

I enjoyed the location switches which include Hong Kong and Canada, with a Mohawk Reservation featuring strongly. The enterprising Mohawks are hosting casino web gambling on their giant servers. A wide variety of crooks also feature, from mob bosses to Yakuza. At first it is hard to see where each new location or set of characters ties in, but the web is satisfactorily woven and pulls tight at the end.

I also enjoyed the IT detail which has clearly been well thought out; a nice touch being the facial recognition program which scans recently posted pictures on social networks to spot an individual in the background of tourist photos. If you want to know about bitcoin, the dark net and AIs, this doesn't give you everything but it's a good jumping off point. Computers, not weaponry, are the arms.

Downside, some of the characters are stereotypes, and some of them are whisked across borders rather quickly, cheaply and without jet lag, language difficulties or waiting time for visas, flights and passports. I also saw some incorrect language use such as diffuse where defuse is appropriate. But it's a thriller. Have fun.
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Todd Simpson
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly Entertaining
Reviewed in Australia on October 23, 2017
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Thoroughly Entertaining. This was such a clever and interesting book to read, and I was surprised at how quickly I read it. I was recommended by a friend to try one of Matthew Mather’s books, and I’m certainly glad I did. The characters are great and I certainly enjoyed the plot from start to finish. Jake O’Connell is a great character, and I like his tenacity. He just doesn’t give up.
Jake O’Connell thought his life was pretty good with a great job, a beautiful wife, and adorable young daughter. That was until the day his boss Danny Donovan was clearly in trouble, and advised Jake that he was under investigation for fraud. This certainly surprised Jake, as he though Donovan was pretty much above board. When Donovan was led away by authorities, Jake's world had suddenly changed, and definitely not for the better. It was almost like someone was cleaning house around the world in the finance industry, with the deaths and disappearances of some high profile people. It didn’t take Jake long to find out he was being targeted, and it seemed that someone either wanted him in jail or better yet, dead. Now he will need to do everything he can to find a way of exposing what is really going on, and find out who is ultimately responsible. It’s always exciting to find a new Author that can grab your attention, with such a well written and entertaining story. Do yourself a favour and read this book, you won’t be disappointed.
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