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Ian Williams

A biting satire of corruption and repression in modern China. Ian Williams has reported on China for more than 20 years and his debut novel has a lot of fun exploring the cynicism of the country's Kafkaesque system' - The South China Morning Post. 
An image goes viral in China. It's posted as a joke by a young blogger, but soon takes on a life of its own. It upends the lives of a delusional British businessman trying to sell the crumbling China miracle, and an American diplomat chasing cyber spies - but mostly and more terrifyingly it threatens the Communist Party, which doesn't have a sense of humour. This gripping novel explores how Internet rumours take on a life of their own in a society where truth and reality are as clear as the thick smog. From Beijing’s smoggy streets to Shanghai’s historic Bund, from the casinos of Macau to the grim factories of southern China, it captures the madness, corruption and dangers of the People’s Republic and sheds light on the Westerners who have grown rich by looking the other way …

RedDoor Press

The Chuck Drayton books

Beijing Smog: Something is stirring beneath the smog

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Mr Robot in this tense cyber thriller. 

'Williams’s excellent sequel to 2017’s Beijing Smog … 

Williams creates vivid action scenes and convincingly draws even minor characters in this tale of a privacy-destroying big tech spying empire. Readily accessible to those with a minimal tech background, this scary cyber thriller deserves a wide readership' - Publishers Weekly

A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. It’s smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers working for a cybercrime syndicate. It can break through an unknown flaw in the world's most secure computer chips and cripple any system within seconds. It's the ultimate cyber weapon and it seems that everybody wants a part of it. 

From Burma to Berlin, and to the new Cold War frontline of Ukraine, cyber sleuth Chuck Drayton and his small team of investigators are pitted against the great cyber powers and an unscrupulous tech billionaire in a desperate race to find the zero day and its shadowy creator.

Zero Days: A cyber thriller

The Chuck Drayton books - The book series

The Chuck Drayton books - The book series

The Chuck Drayton books books in order

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