Black Nowhere

by Reece Hirsch

Overview

Chasing a cybercriminal into the pitch-black heart of the Dark Web.

Special Agent Lisa Tanchik is the best at taking down cybercriminals. So when the FBI discovers a multibillion-dollar black market online, she’s tasked with finding the creator and bringing him to justice. Donning one of her many digital disguises, Tanchik goes undercover into the network.

Brilliant college student Nate Fallon started his site as an idealistic experiment. But his platform has made illegal trade not only more efficient—but also more dangerous. Now the FBI aren’t the only ones out to get him. As profits soar, a criminal organization casts its monstrous gaze on Fallon, and danger leaps from cyberspace into reality.

Feeling pressure from both sides of the law, Fallon is forced to make a decision with shattering consequences. Can Agent Tanchik find Fallon before his dangerous infrastructure falls into the wrong hands?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542042918
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	09/01/2019
Series:	Lisa Tanchik , #1
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Reece Hirsch is the author of five thrillers that draw upon his background as a privacy attorney. His first book, The Insider, was a finalist for the 2011 International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel. His next three books, The Adversary, Intrusion, and Surveillance, all feature 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). He lives in the Bay Area with his wife. Find out more at www.reecehirsch.com.

Editorial Reviews

07/15/2019

This brisk, provocative series launch from Hirsch (The Adversary) introduces FBI special agent Lisa Tanchick, a member of a taskforce charged with taking down Kyte, a website for the sale of illegal drugs run by the anonymous CaptainMal. CaptainMal is in reality Nate Fallon, a Stanford student who sees Kyte as simply another start-up that provides a product the public wants: reasonably priced illegal drugs delivered safely to their doorstep. Using an online alias, Lisa tries to work herself into CaptainMal’s confidence. Meanwhile, Nate must deal with the website’s management problems while maneuvering to keep it out of reach of the law. Their cat-and-mouse game takes a darker turn after a Kyte underling decides to cooperate with the Bureau, and then Nate has to confront a savage Mexican drug cartel that wants to put him out of business. Though Lisa’s clinical depression (the black nowhere of the title) is largely irrelevant to the story, readers can hope her character will be better developed in the sequel. Those interested in a look at the dark potential of web commerce will be satisfied. Agent: David Hale Smith, Inkwell Management. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

[A] brisk, provocative series launch…” —Publishers Weekly

“Black Nowhere showcases author Reece Hirsch’s mastery of the suspense thriller genre with this FBI procedural novel that will hold the reader’s rapt attention from cover to cover.” —Midwest Book Review

“There’s something great about being embroiled in a book series from the start. This fantastic series launch will form part of the Lisa Tanchik series…We’re expecting good things.” —Yahoo Style UK

“Reece Hirsch serves up the perfect blend of science and story in Black Nowhere…This is truly eye-opening stuff. Black Nowhere is so cutting edge, you almost need gloves to turn the pages. A relentless ride with as many dips as a roller-coaster and as many darts as NASCAR.” —Providence Journal

“Hirsch adapts the realities of our brave new high-tech world into an entertaining nail-biter…FBI Special Agent Lisa Tanchik, an online chameleon who infiltrates the criminal network, is an exciting heroine for these digitally defined times…” —Diablo Magazine

“Black Nowhere is a next-gen thriller that will leave your fingertips blistered from scrolling pages so fast. Prepare to lose sleep!” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

“Black Nowhere is an extremely unsettling thriller that haunted me for weeks. It’s a shrewd critique of Silicon Valley startup culture, a brisk FBI procedural, and a chilling look at a very modern form of amorality.” —Dave Eggers, author of The Circle and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist

“Black Nowhere is a blast. A gripping thriller with wonderfully nuanced characters. If you haven’t been reading Reece Hirsch, it’s time to start.” —Lisa Lutz, New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger

“Black Nowhere is a Dark Web Scarface for the twenty-first century! Fast, smart, and timely, Hirsch hits all the right notes in this cat-and-mouse page-turner that exposes the false utopia promised by the modern internet. I hope there is much more to come from Special Agent Lisa Tanchik.” —Matthew FitzSimmons, Wall Street Journal bestselling author

“Special Agent Lisa Tanchik is a terrific lead character, passionate about her work as she journeys into the dark web where cybercriminals lurk and nothing is what it seems. A must-read!” —T.R. Ragan, New York Times bestselling author

“Smart, intense, and frighteningly real—I loved this book! Readers who enjoy thrillers with a heavy dose of high-tech computer wizardry will devour Reece Hirsch’s gripping new novel. When two of the smartest people on the planet face off in a cat-and-mouse game that might be the end for them both, the outcome is anything but certain.” —Karen Dionne, international bestselling author of The Marsh King’s Daughter

“A sleek and suspenseful state-of-the-art thriller with crisp writing and engaging characters that has something to say about the way we live now.” —Peter Blauner, author of Sunrise Highway

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