"Imaginative and intuitive. . . . Conviser mines and mints a non-stop stream of visual images."
Chris Carter
creator of
The X Files
"This fast-paced infotech thriller takes your breath away, both with the speed at which events unfold, and the sheer imagination of the author. . . . Ryan Laing is the 21st-century James Bond."
Frederick P. Hitz
former inspector general of the CIA
and author of The Great Game
"[A] fast-paced hurtle through a near-future dystopia, in the William Gibson mold—and not so far-fetched as you'd think."
Patrick Radden Keefe
author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
ECHELON
In the near future, war is obsolete, conflict unknown, and peace reigns.
Or so it seems.
Once part of the United States' surveillance net, Echelon slipped its leash to become the covert power shaping world affairs. Now, it controls global data, erases dissent, and smooths our flow into the future. Peace is what remains after everything else has been filtered out.
But after years of silent control, the system is starting to crack.
Veteran operator, Ryan Laing was engineered for Echelon - optimized, weaponized, biologically tuned for the architecture of control. But as the system crumbles, Laing falls into a conspiracy to reboot the world in blood.
With Sarah Peters - handler, hacker and neo-punk savant - Laing launches into a race through the halls of power and across a destabilizing planet.
From the flooded beachfront of Venice, California, to a murderous jungle in Southeast Asia - they must uncover who in Echelon is playing God... and what greater hell will soon be unleashed.