Darknet

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

From the best-selling author of CyberStorm comes a wild ride through the Wall Street underworld.

One minute Jake O'Connell is on top of the world, with a beautiful family and bright future as a stock broker in New York; the next it's all ripped away when he's embroiled in a fraud investigation, his childhood friend is murdered, and he finds himself on the run. Dodging the FBI and targeted by the Mob, Jake is thrown into a Wall Street underworld of crypto currencies and autonomous corporations, where he discovers a dark secret setting the world on a path to destruction. He must evade the shadowy forces hunting him and find a way to redemption - but the faster he runs, the deeper he becomes entangled. In the end his only path forward is to return to the ghosts of his past.

Darknet is a journey into the back alleys of global finance and cyber espionage, the story of one man's quest to redeem himself and save his family.

©2014 Matthew Mather (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Great Read

Got this free off of kindle unlimited and didnt know if I was going to like it, but Matthew Mathers did it again. Like his book cyber storm I was hooked from the first few chapters and hated it every time I had to hit the pause button.

Good

Interesting material , good likable characters, listened to the audible version.
I just finished and picked up another from this author. Thanks

Mix of psychological & action thriller

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.

Too easy of a cleanup

Good read all the way through until the final chapters; the finality was too simple, contrived, and not remotely likely.

Plausible, imaginative!

very good, similar to Ready Player One. near future science fiction, l like it very much!