More than a year after his girlfriend’s death, legendary hacker West Wilder receives a cryptic message: She’s alive. Who is trying to tear open his wounds? For what cruel reason?
Teaming up with his tinker friend Jitterbug, West embarks on a desperate hunt for answers. Meanwhile, the digital world plunges into chaos as all transatlantic internet cables go dark. Governments execute contingency plans but stay mum, corporations panic, and the media struggles to inform the public what’s going on.
The deeper West goes—into the sea, into the conspiracy, and into the world of internet sovereignty—the more dangerous the game gets. Caught between manipulative super powers and the truth he’s desperate to uncover, he must decide if he’s willing to pay the ultimate price.
With high-stakes action, cutting-edge technology, and an emotional quest at its core, Submerged is a gripping thriller that dives to the depths of the digital age, and the human heart.
John Wilander is an author of hard hacker fiction and writes about struggles against powerful adversaries where hackers are the heroes. Robberies, heists, espionage, and wars take place in cyberspace today. John’s fiction writing builds on the fears and aspirations of our present, and envisions our future. When he’s not researching or writing his next piece, he works as a senior privacy and security engineer in Silicon Valley, California.