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Karen E. Olson

A computer hacker’s criminal past comes back to haunt her in this “edge-of-your-seat thriller” from the author of Vanished (Alison Gaylin, USA Today–bestselling author).

Nicole Jones lives off the grid. She doesn’t have a driver’s license, passport, or even a bank account. She definitely doesn’t own a computer. Operating bike tours on Block Island, she hasn’t left her New England refuge in fifteen years. But it’s not that she’s afraid of the world. She’s afraid of what she could do to it if she ever plugged back in. Because Nicole Jones isn’t her real name. Still wanted by the FBI, she was once one of the best cyberthieves in the business.

When the last person Nicole wants to see suddenly appears on the island, using a name he knows will draw her out, Nicole realizes that no one can hide forever—not even her. As her secret past comes to light and her carefully-constructed life starts to unravel, Nicole’s long-time haven becomes a prison, and her only chance for survival is hacking her way out.

Severn House

The Black Hat Thrillers

Hidden

An ex-cyberthief is on the run from her past in an “electrifying” thriller by the author of Hidden: “an addictive page-turner with a stunner of a finale” (Kirkus Reviews).

For fifteen years, her name was Nicole Jones. Then her criminal past caught up to her. Now the brilliant computer hacker has reinvented herself once again, living as Susan McQueen on a remote island in Quebec, Canada. Susan lives a quiet life, but she hasn’t given up her computer. While in an online chatroom, she discovers she has a shadow. Someone’s hacked into her laptop—someone who knows who she is. Capable of watching her every move, they want a hefty payment in bitcoin not to make trouble.

Now Susan is on the run again. But from whom? Is it the FBI or someone associated with her criminal past? Making her way across the border and back to America won’t be easy. And as her shadow looms closer, Susan discovers just who—and what—she’s up against.

Shadowed

A computer hacker working to clear her name discovers a dangerous threat could closer than she knows in this technothriller from the author of Hidden.

 Framed for ordering a hit on mobster Tony DeMarco, Tina Adler is forced to re-enter the shadowy world of computer hacking she thought she’d left behind. In order to clear her name, she reluctantly joins an FBI team led by her old flame, Zeke Chapman, tasked with scouring the deep web to unearth DeMarco’s darkest secrets.

 The trail will lead Tina to the person who framed her—but it may also reveal other secrets, secrets she would rather not know. DeMarco may, in fact, be the least of Tina’s worries. Her true enemy just might be someone much closer to home…

“Adrenaline-charged…Although technology is at the heart of the story, don’t expect any geeky dependence on techie minutiae in this well-written, character-driven thriller.”—Publishers Weekly

“[A] high-tension series…The finale will leave everyone wanting more.”—Kirkus Reviews

Betrayed

A computer hacker on the run heads to Paris to get answers but the truth may come at a price in this technothriller from the author of Betrayed.

With a price on her head, computer hacker Tina Adler is determined to stay offline. Only one person knows how to reach her, and he's in as much danger as she is.

A chance discovery leads Tina to abandon her South Carolina hideaway in search of her old flame, undercover FBI Agent Zeke Chapman. What is Zeke doing in Paris, France? And what is his connection to the disappearance of American college student Ryan Whittier?

En route to Paris in search of answers, Tina realizes that someone is on her trail and getting disturbingly close. Has she been set up?

“This timely thriller is Alias meets Hackers and you can’t get any cooler than that. ”—Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today–bestselling author

“The protagonist of Vanished barely has time to breathe, and neither do we. ”—Joseph Finder, New York Times–bestselling author of The Switch

The Black Hat Thrillers - The book series

The Black Hat Thrillers - The book series

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