Description
Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family
Tom's a regular teenager - sullen, anxious, super-smart, feeling safe within his bedroom and wedded to his screen.
On a packed train, a London commodities trader gets under his skin.
The trader's got a fine wife, two kids, a yappy dog, big house, annual bonus. Tom hacks him. The trader's hardware becomes stuffed with dangerous, damaging images. Call it collateral damage.
Hacking is what Tom does. He's got control of the keyboards of key players in the fossil fuel industry. If he doesn't bring down the grid, who will?
Roads and trainlines lead the main players to a violent confrontation in the brutalist surrounds of London's Barbican Centre. Government agents work to prevent a global blackout. Tom's set to save the planet.
Who will win?
About the Author
Martin Goodman has tackled the world in a thrilling range of fiction and nonfiction. His subjects are self-experimenting scientists and spiritual masters, shamans and Nazi war criminals, eco-warriors and world-class musicians, vampires and Tibetan lamas. His books have won awards, with settings that span the globe. More and more they wave red flags about ecological crises. His recent My Head for a Tree tells the story of the Bishnois, a community in India who fight with their lives to protect nature. He is emeritus professor at the University of Hull, an editor for Conservation Times, and shares a life with his husband between London, Los Angeles and the South of France.
Reviews
Praise for Martin Goodman
"Goodman writes with flare and panache, and the narrative fizzes along. Goodman's novel soars." - The Times
"Heralds a new dawn for British writing." - Daily Post
"Beautifully structured and has a distinctive and haunting tone. Altogether a very clever and memorable piece of work." - Simon Mawer, author of The Glass Room
"A magical mystery tour in humility, truth, death, betrayal, forgiveness, the envelopment of nature, written as clearly and powerfully as a French Pyrenees river." - Karla Kuban, author of Marchlands
"A treat to read - a gripping, uncanny, gothic adventure." - , author of Gothic Horror
"It combines psychology at its darkest with a genuine sense of the uncanny - a powerful and disturbing experience." - Ramsey Campbell
"A great book about how to save the planet" - Coldplay
"The book is inspirational in a hardheaded, let's go to work-and-get-real-results sort of way ... There's a global vision. It's quietly amazing." - Oxford Today
"Goodman's attention to detail often combines with verbal felicity to memorialize even the most ordinary moments. Powerful and affecting work." - Paul Russell, author of Immaculate Blue
"Such narrow, narrow confines we live in. Every so often, one of us primates escapes these dimensions, as Martin Goodman did. All we can do is rattle the bars and look after him as he runs into the hills. We wait for his letters home." - The Los Angeles Times
"Extraordinary - An important, aching, artful novel." - The Toronto Star
Book Information
ISBN 9781917352079
Author Martin Goodman
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Barbican Press
Publisher Barbican Press
