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"Deliciously twisty" - The Hackney Citizen
Taking down the
grid, one stolen identity at a time.
A gripping techno-thriller that fuses Patricia Highsmith's psychological intensity with urgent climate activism. When teenage hacker Tom Snelling encounters coal broker Steve McInnes on a train, a chance collision sparks a devastating game of digital cat-and-mouse. Tom, a reclusive coding prodigy driven by eco-fury, systematically dismantles Steve's life—planting child pornography, triggering financial chaos, and exposing the moral rot beneath corporate respectability. But Tom is being watched by Mel, a gender-fluid intelligence operative, while MI5's shadowy "Glyph" operation secretly manipulates them both. As Tom's algorithms threaten to collapse the global fossil fuel industry, the question becomes: can one brilliant, damaged boy save the planet by burning down the system—or will his digital vengeance consume everything, including himself?
"Deliciously twisty" - The Hackney Citizen
Taking down the
grid, one stolen identity at a time.
A gripping techno-thriller that fuses Patricia Highsmith's psychological intensity with urgent climate...
Taking down the
grid, one stolen identity at a time.
A gripping techno-thriller that fuses Patricia Highsmith's psychological intensity with urgent climate activism. When teenage hacker Tom Snelling encounters coal broker Steve McInnes on a train, a chance collision sparks a devastating game of digital cat-and-mouse. Tom, a reclusive coding prodigy driven by eco-fury, systematically dismantles Steve's life—planting child pornography, triggering financial chaos, and exposing the moral rot beneath corporate respectability. But Tom is being watched by Mel, a gender-fluid intelligence operative, while MI5's shadowy "Glyph" operation secretly manipulates them both. As Tom's algorithms threaten to collapse the global fossil fuel industry, the question becomes: can one brilliant, damaged boy save the planet by burning down the system—or will his digital vengeance consume everything, including himself?
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Writing Thrillers the Patricia Highsmith Way: A podcast / feature / festival program: As a professor of creative writing, Martin Goodman was obsessed by Patricia Highsmith. Topics he will cover in public appearances/interviews:
How did she make her books so compelling? Year after year her crime thrillers were his set texts, he and his students burrow through them to find the secrets of her success.
What novel would a 21st century Patricia Highsmith write? Martin Goodman tried to work that out by putting some of her writing secrets into practice. Like Tom Ripley in Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley, his The Boy on the Train has a Tom who is an identity thief with a troubled backstory.
Martin leads a journey to appreciate what made Ripley click, and how the tricks spun by Patricia Highmith’s mind can be made to work toda
Writing Thrillers the Patricia Highsmith Way: A podcast / feature / festival program: As a professor of creative writing, Martin Goodman was obsessed by Patricia Highsmith. Topics he will cover in...
Writing Thrillers the Patricia Highsmith Way: A podcast / feature / festival program: As a professor of creative writing, Martin Goodman was obsessed by Patricia Highsmith. Topics he will cover in public appearances/interviews:
How did she make her books so compelling? Year after year her crime thrillers were his set texts, he and his students burrow through them to find the secrets of her success.
What novel would a 21st century Patricia Highsmith write? Martin Goodman tried to work that out by putting some of her writing secrets into practice. Like Tom Ripley in Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley, his The Boy on the Train has a Tom who is an identity thief with a troubled backstory.
Martin leads a journey to appreciate what made Ripley click, and how the tricks spun by Patricia Highmith’s mind can be made to work toda
*This page contains affiliate links, so we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through links on our site at no additional cost to you.
*This page contains affiliate links, so we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through links on our site at no additional cost to you.
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