Margit Ruile
Dark Noise
14+,
13/03/2017
288 Pages, 13.5 x 21.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7855-8446-0
Trade Paperback
14,95 € (D)
15,40 € (A)
incl. VAT, shipping extra
Rights sold:
Turkish
More about this title
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• A gripping thriller with a powerful voice and an original narrative perspective
• Strong characters who keep the reader hooked
• Surveillance and manipulation are the underlying themes of this book, which tackles the explosive subject of data deluge and viral news. How can we tell what is true and what isn’tDay after day, Zafer sits at his computer editing images for a TV soap opera. He never leaves the house, and has all his meals delivered. One day Zafer is sent an anonymous commission: his task is to airbrush a man out of a piece of surveillance footage.
While out for the first time in weeks, looking for a takeaway place he meets a girl called Emily, a street musician. Zafer is fascinated by her. Emily works as a hacker for the underground organisation Dark Noise, which has its headquarters in a disused underground train tunnel. Dark Noise’s mission is to fight surveillance. Zafer soon realises he is working for a murderer, and covering for a dangerous organisation. This organisation has developed a code with which they are able to falsify photographic images. They are also capable of sending these images viral. And that gives them the power to deceive, blackmail and manipulate the entire world...
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