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They “knew everything about us,” the grandmother told the Norwegian police investigators between her tears. Ten-year old Grete was going to meet her teacher in school. It all seemed so “normal” said the grandparents.
A hacker named Frank and a triad of Norwegian, Europol and FBI investigators convene to “find Grete.” There is more at stake that has mobilized the cross-Atlantic cooperation. What they don’t know is that they have opened the door to the game of power getting played in the new domain of cyberspace where real and virtual (cyber) space collide and the rules of trust need to be rethought. They “know everything about us” is how the game gets played.
Politics will get in the way and they will find Grete, just not alive. That is Frank’s fear. In a dizzying rush of hack and counter hack, the forces of good bring together an odd assortment of heroes. Monika learned her trade in Russia as one of the original Anons as in the Anonymous. Frank started hacking in the nineties and Jaime, now an FBI Special Agent leads the elite cyber squad from the NYC field office. The Norwegian lead investigator from KRIPOS is Fredrick Hansen who is nearing the end of his career. He remembers why it was that he had first joined. It means everything to “find Grete.”
A hacker named Frank and a triad of Norwegian, Europol and FBI investigators convene to “find Grete.” There is more at stake that has mobilized the cross-Atlantic cooperation. What they don’t know is that they have opened the door to the game of power getting played in the new domain of cyberspace where real and virtual (cyber) space collide and the rules of trust need to be rethought. They “know everything about us” is how the game gets played.
Politics will get in the way and they will find Grete, just not alive. That is Frank’s fear. In a dizzying rush of hack and counter hack, the forces of good bring together an odd assortment of heroes. Monika learned her trade in Russia as one of the original Anons as in the Anonymous. Frank started hacking in the nineties and Jaime, now an FBI Special Agent leads the elite cyber squad from the NYC field office. The Norwegian lead investigator from KRIPOS is Fredrick Hansen who is nearing the end of his career. He remembers why it was that he had first joined. It means everything to “find Grete.”
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First published January 1, 2013
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July 13, 2013
A story of darkness in the digital world. Power is still the game. A girl is taken, not the first. To what purpose? It is not so clear.
We are writing a cyber-crime-thriller book called eNikita that takes place in Europe with support from the FBI and linkage to other parts of the world (Asia). The crime, at face value, is online pedophilia, hence the "e" prefix to the name Nikita. But the story portends that there is more than meets the eye. And there is, a great deal more. This book is in the bete-noir genre of stories with a high-paced plot - comparable to the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (comments from early reviewers.) Our project goal is to raise funds to get this book over the finish line, which is a professionally edited, highly polished book...the first in a series. There is a movie at the end of this effort - but that is for later. The project at this point is to get the book published through an established publisher, or to go the e-publishing route that would include the costs to market/publicize the book. Funds are needed to keep the primary author on this task as the day job, for the editing and publicizing, etc.
We are on a schedule to have a first draft by the end of the summer and if all goes well to publish before the end of the calendar year (2013). The story is set, the writing of the first draft is 2/3 done and the early reviewers are highly enthusiastic. These reviewers are professional people - with no need to indulge...they like the book so far. The most common review comment has been, "where is the next chapter...you have me hooked!"
We want this book to be professionally edited. It will take several iterations of editing and the cost is estimated somewhere between $5,000 to $8,000 on the low side - could go higher depending on who we use. Cover design and marketing are the other principal costs - estimated to be in the $3,000 to $4,000 range depending on how much marketing we need to get done. If we get picked up by a publishing house, then the cost would be less. If not then we have to bear the cost. The marketing is needed to getting the book known once it is epublished. I have just finished publishing an ebook on my own cost - so I have some experience to work from...and I can't afford another one. We also want to make a concept video of what could be a movie - like a movie trailer but before the movie. The idea is to use the video to create a fan base that could be used to help sell the idea to a movie producer. We have less experience on what it would cost to do the video but something in the range of $3,000 is probably in the ball park. Lastly, writing takes a great deal of time that I need to spend - that means I don't get to spend that time on paying work. So having Kickstarter participants to our project help to participate in getting this launched makes it possible to have this book see success.
Timeline: We want to have it published (printed) before the end of this year - and ideally by the end of November...then get start marketing for a couple of months...so the full completion of the project by end of the year or by early January. The video can be done in the same timeframe.
You can help us get to that finish line - be part of the success. Provided below is a summary of the book...without giving up the surprises.
On a ferry crossing the North Sea headed to Denmark lies sleeping a young adolescent girl from a harbor town in the south of Norway. She is hidden away in a compartment in the bowels of the ship - to keep a secret. The parents are in the Caribbean for their wedding anniversary, the grandparents think she is in school, the school calls the home, but no one answers. In the time that it would have taken to make her absence known – a window of time when the authorities could have reacted, she is far away in a place that is part of the secret. It was planned this way – in detail.
She is not the first. The secret started back in the turmoil of the Cold War, when a new Europe dreamed of peace and collaboration. With time the dream became the European Union. In its midst within the halls of power an evil cancer began to grow. Its secret cell began small and inconspicuous morphing with time into something else that reached across to others in other places of the world. Norway shudders.
Grete, the young girl is one of them, as innocent as a ten year old can be with locks of golden hair and a sweet trusting character. Chief Investigator Frederik Hansen of Kripos, the Federal Office is tasked with doing the impossible. “Find her you must, Chief. Bring her home safe and sound,” was the specific tasking coming from the top – the Minister of Justice. The government can ill afford another public relations fiasco like they had in June of 2011 when the country was rocked with two terrorist events both within hours of each other.
He starts with getting lucky. A young hacker named Frank working for an organized crime group called the NoSaints in Oslo, Norway, is tasked by his masters with breaking into the computer of a visiting member of the European Council named Silvio Tosti who is based out of Brussels, Belgium. Frank, the hacker, is looking for the passwords to financial accounts when he stumbles onto a web site and a video of the young girl that is in the news. Frank takes the fateful step of walking into the Police Station in Oslo and into the lap of the Chief.
From this moment, the story unfolds with urgent fury. The Chief throws away the playbook and protocol. He calls the FBI in New York City to get help from another chief, Supervisory Special Agent Jaime Rodriguez and his team of cyber security experts. Frank the hacker, sees in the effort to save Grete his life’s purpose regained that had gone off the rails when he became the slave of the NoSaints. The plot has all the twists and turns of running the race at Monte Carlo at breakneck speed with more surprises in store that will keep you guessing. There is more here than meets the eye - a story told in the context of present time when cyber sleuthing merges with social engineering to become a noveau-art of crime with every kind of motivation in the dark attic of modern society.
Risks and challenges Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
This book is over 2/3 finished - so finishing it is not the main concern. What is a concern is the process thereafter and the cost thereof - of getting it published. We certainly have the high aspiration that this story will make it big - which means that we will have to spend the time and money to get it known, to be heard in a sea of voices that are the many books entering the market. We know we have a great story. We know this because we have been socializing it with what will ultimately be close to 100 people from different walks of life - but all professionals. So our risk and challenge boils down to working the process and spending the money to get it polished to a high sheen - which is where you and Kickstarter (happily) come in.
You can start reading eNikita now - a special preview edition of the book as a pdf containing the first 4 chapters, about a third of the book, and 140 pages https://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/...
If you would like to help fund completion of the book: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5...
We are writing a cyber-crime-thriller book called eNikita that takes place in Europe with support from the FBI and linkage to other parts of the world (Asia). The crime, at face value, is online pedophilia, hence the "e" prefix to the name Nikita. But the story portends that there is more than meets the eye. And there is, a great deal more. This book is in the bete-noir genre of stories with a high-paced plot - comparable to the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (comments from early reviewers.) Our project goal is to raise funds to get this book over the finish line, which is a professionally edited, highly polished book...the first in a series. There is a movie at the end of this effort - but that is for later. The project at this point is to get the book published through an established publisher, or to go the e-publishing route that would include the costs to market/publicize the book. Funds are needed to keep the primary author on this task as the day job, for the editing and publicizing, etc.
We are on a schedule to have a first draft by the end of the summer and if all goes well to publish before the end of the calendar year (2013). The story is set, the writing of the first draft is 2/3 done and the early reviewers are highly enthusiastic. These reviewers are professional people - with no need to indulge...they like the book so far. The most common review comment has been, "where is the next chapter...you have me hooked!"
We want this book to be professionally edited. It will take several iterations of editing and the cost is estimated somewhere between $5,000 to $8,000 on the low side - could go higher depending on who we use. Cover design and marketing are the other principal costs - estimated to be in the $3,000 to $4,000 range depending on how much marketing we need to get done. If we get picked up by a publishing house, then the cost would be less. If not then we have to bear the cost. The marketing is needed to getting the book known once it is epublished. I have just finished publishing an ebook on my own cost - so I have some experience to work from...and I can't afford another one. We also want to make a concept video of what could be a movie - like a movie trailer but before the movie. The idea is to use the video to create a fan base that could be used to help sell the idea to a movie producer. We have less experience on what it would cost to do the video but something in the range of $3,000 is probably in the ball park. Lastly, writing takes a great deal of time that I need to spend - that means I don't get to spend that time on paying work. So having Kickstarter participants to our project help to participate in getting this launched makes it possible to have this book see success.
Timeline: We want to have it published (printed) before the end of this year - and ideally by the end of November...then get start marketing for a couple of months...so the full completion of the project by end of the year or by early January. The video can be done in the same timeframe.
You can help us get to that finish line - be part of the success. Provided below is a summary of the book...without giving up the surprises.
On a ferry crossing the North Sea headed to Denmark lies sleeping a young adolescent girl from a harbor town in the south of Norway. She is hidden away in a compartment in the bowels of the ship - to keep a secret. The parents are in the Caribbean for their wedding anniversary, the grandparents think she is in school, the school calls the home, but no one answers. In the time that it would have taken to make her absence known – a window of time when the authorities could have reacted, she is far away in a place that is part of the secret. It was planned this way – in detail.
She is not the first. The secret started back in the turmoil of the Cold War, when a new Europe dreamed of peace and collaboration. With time the dream became the European Union. In its midst within the halls of power an evil cancer began to grow. Its secret cell began small and inconspicuous morphing with time into something else that reached across to others in other places of the world. Norway shudders.
Grete, the young girl is one of them, as innocent as a ten year old can be with locks of golden hair and a sweet trusting character. Chief Investigator Frederik Hansen of Kripos, the Federal Office is tasked with doing the impossible. “Find her you must, Chief. Bring her home safe and sound,” was the specific tasking coming from the top – the Minister of Justice. The government can ill afford another public relations fiasco like they had in June of 2011 when the country was rocked with two terrorist events both within hours of each other.
He starts with getting lucky. A young hacker named Frank working for an organized crime group called the NoSaints in Oslo, Norway, is tasked by his masters with breaking into the computer of a visiting member of the European Council named Silvio Tosti who is based out of Brussels, Belgium. Frank, the hacker, is looking for the passwords to financial accounts when he stumbles onto a web site and a video of the young girl that is in the news. Frank takes the fateful step of walking into the Police Station in Oslo and into the lap of the Chief.
From this moment, the story unfolds with urgent fury. The Chief throws away the playbook and protocol. He calls the FBI in New York City to get help from another chief, Supervisory Special Agent Jaime Rodriguez and his team of cyber security experts. Frank the hacker, sees in the effort to save Grete his life’s purpose regained that had gone off the rails when he became the slave of the NoSaints. The plot has all the twists and turns of running the race at Monte Carlo at breakneck speed with more surprises in store that will keep you guessing. There is more here than meets the eye - a story told in the context of present time when cyber sleuthing merges with social engineering to become a noveau-art of crime with every kind of motivation in the dark attic of modern society.
Risks and challenges Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
This book is over 2/3 finished - so finishing it is not the main concern. What is a concern is the process thereafter and the cost thereof - of getting it published. We certainly have the high aspiration that this story will make it big - which means that we will have to spend the time and money to get it known, to be heard in a sea of voices that are the many books entering the market. We know we have a great story. We know this because we have been socializing it with what will ultimately be close to 100 people from different walks of life - but all professionals. So our risk and challenge boils down to working the process and spending the money to get it polished to a high sheen - which is where you and Kickstarter (happily) come in.
You can start reading eNikita now - a special preview edition of the book as a pdf containing the first 4 chapters, about a third of the book, and 140 pages https://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/...
If you would like to help fund completion of the book: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5...
November 29, 2013
"Brought the book on my vacation and like always with à hope of some real engagement. And this book really lived up to that. From the very beginning a story of human trafficking / Pedophilia / cybercrime develops. Very exciting reading, amazing facts and details from the authors that reveals most likely a lot of knowledge and insights. I'm not a typical book reader and when I do it must be easily read, not to big storyboard and characters and lot of excitement. This books delivers to me."
January 6, 2014
If someone can tell me how to make half stars - I would give it a three and a half star review. Another mystery crime book, this time global, not only physically but digitally. Lots of fun techno-talk (maybe too much -- but hey, wotcha gonna do?), but if you hang tough, you'll get it just fine. Good action, enough background that you actually care about the people, and some really bad guys.
December 29, 2015
Mildly entertaining; I thought it would have more hacking stuff.
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