Book One of the Hacker’s Pursuit Trilogy

A worm ignites the first silent war.

A hacker becomes the only hope to stop it.

When brilliant but reclusive Swedish hacker Alex Lindholm discovers her prototype code has been hijacked and unleashed on critical infrastructure, it sets off a chain reaction across Europe—plunging cities into darkness and nations into digital panic.

Now targeted by enemies and haunted by her past, Alex is pulled into a covert operation led by the Swedish Security Service. At her side: Carl Håkansson, a determined agent with political pressures mounting, and John Shepard, a shadowy cyber-intelligence analyst who might be more threat than ally.

Their pursuit leads deep into the ruins of post-Soviet power structures and the dark web, where an elusive figure known as the Master is orchestrating chaos—and she shares a history with Alex that makes the mission personal.

As systems collapse and trust erodes, Alex must decide what kind of hacker she wants to be—the kind who hides in the code, or the kind who rewrites it all.