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    The Adversary
    The Adversary
    The Adversary
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Adversary

    Written by Reece Hirsch

    Narrated by Benjamin L. Darcie

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    About this audiobook

    Former DOJ cybercrimes prosecutor Chris Bruen walks into a dark apartment in Amsterdam to confront a hacker known as Black Vector. The hacker has stolen the source code for the world’s most ubiquitous operating system, which powers everything from personal computers to the NSA’s data centers. This should have been a routine assignment for Bruen, but instead of obtaining a confession, Bruen finds the hacker’s dead body and uncovers a hidden flash drive that contains the code for a remarkably sophisticated computer virus known as Lurker.

    Upon his return home to San Francisco, Bruen finds himself the target of a shadowy group of hackers who plan on unleashing Lurker, which will bring a major US city to its knees in seven days. Bruen doesn’t know why he’s the target, but the answers seem to lie somewhere in his troubled past. Suddenly, Bruen is framed as the planner of the cyberattack, making him the top suspect in an international manhunt. Bruen must stay ahead of the FBI and CIA in a race across Europe while he tries to decode the virus, find the hackers, and clear his name. With the lives of tens of thousands of people hanging in the balance, and his own life about to be destroyed, Bruen must go beyond the brink to stop the hackers.

    This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 10, 2013
    ISBN9781480572652
    The Adversary
    Author

    Reece Hirsch

    Reece Hirsch is the author of six thrillers that draw upon his background as a privacy attorney. His first book, The Insider, was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel. His other works include Black Nowhere, the first book featuring FBI special agent Lisa Tanchik, and three books, The Adversary, Intrusion, and Surveillance, featuring former Department of Justice cybercrimes prosecutor Chris Bruen. Hirsch is a partner at the San Francisco office of an international law firm and cochair of its privacy and cybersecurity practice. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation (www.vadfoundation.org). Hirsch lives in the Bay Area with his wife. Find out more at www.reecehirsch.com.

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    • 3/5
      The story is actually quite good but the narrator reall reall REALLY needs to learn to pronounce foreign words that really aren‘t that difficult. He should have heard of Edith Piaf surely? (He calls her Edith Payf). Or Gedarmes are actually GeNdarmes. Simple english words like frequent (as in, to visit) were also mispronounced. It sadly ruined my enjoyment of the book, since you eventually stop listening to the story and just listen for the next mistake.