![]() Maddie, a professional gamer, offers to serve as his guide, taking him to the C3 Conference, an international video gaming extravaganza at the San Jose Convention Center. Shaw, raised with his two siblings in the wilderness by his paranoid survivalist father, has excelling tracking skills and self-defence skills, but little experience with computers or the gaming industry. The owner of the Quick Byte Café calls Shaw to report that the Missing poster featuring Sophie’s picture has been replaced by an odd black and white stencil of a stylized face, leading Shaw to a creepy video game called The Whispering Man. Wiley is suspicious of Shaw’s involvement and dismissive of his request for a search in San Miguel Park. He heads to Santa Clara to talk to Detective Wiley, who took Frank’s missing person report, handing over the phone and his notes, hand written with a fountain pen and including a list ranked by percentage of the most likely scenarios. Guessing that she has a favorite place to burn off anger in San Miguel Park, Shaw finds the fragment of a bike reflector, a blood-stained rock, and Sophie’s phone. At the Quick Byte Café, where Sophie was last seen, Shaw talks the owner into showing him the security video, and he spots a hooded figure crouching down by Sophie’s bike before she peddles furiously off to the north. Even working two jobs, he couldn’t make enough money to keep the family house in Mountain View, and had just listed it for sale. Frank admits that he and Sophie had a fight before she stormed out of the house on her mountain bike. Shaw has just arrived in Silicon Valley to talk to Frank Mulliner, who has offered a $10,000 reward for the return of his 19-year-old daughter Sophie, who vanished two days earlier. Putnam’s Sons 2019) introduces Colter Shaw, who travels around the US in his Winnebago, earning reward money by finding missing persons. This alarming high-tech debut thriller combines non-stop action with dark humor. Azi uses his Jim Denison persona to infiltrate Gomorrah and discovers that the reality of the dark web is far more terrifying than anything he imagined. Azi is frightened of Anna and the even scarier Odi, but follows their directions and flees London for Berlin with Munira. Following the NADIR commands, Azi meets Sigma, Munira Khan in real life, who tells him she stumbled over the documents when a recruiter from the far right Islamic Republic inserted a thumb drive into a laptop she had loaned her cousin, who is now in Syria filming glorious deaths and gory executions for the Islamic Republic propaganda machine. All his own technology is confiscated, along with most of his online currency, and he finds himself tethered to a new phone that runs only one app: New Action Directives Issued Remotely (NADIR). Azi has no idea who Anna works for, but is horrified to learn that his secret identity is blown and knows he has no choice but to agree. About five minutes later a woman calling herself Anna knocks on the door to his shed, revealing that they know everything about his hacking past and demanding that he immediately send Sigma a message saying he has changed his mind and wants to meet in exchange for not arresting him for hacking. She asks to meet in real life, but Azi refuses, offering online help but nothing in person. A short note from Sigma explains that she has found Gomorrah, a secret marketplace on the dark web, and is fleeing for her life. Additional files provide proof that 50 Islamic martyrs have returned from the grave and are preparing a massive terrorist attack. He has been online friends with Sigma for about a year when she sends him a zip file of documents, including a selection leaked in 2013 from inside the Islamic Republic. Azi has built his own reputation in the hacker community, beginning with his 2012 takedown of a casino through a security hole in the filtration system of their trademark gigantic fish tank. For the last 18 months, Azi’s obsession has been the creation of Jim Denison, a photogenic white man who has built trust in the online neo-Nazi community. The Gomorrah Gambit (Mulholland Books 2019) is the story of Azi Bello, an affable and social inept young London hacker known as AZ, who has spent most of his life alone with his technology in a small backyard shed.
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