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Fighting Fire: Fuel
I’ll be watching you…
In an all too realistic future of constant surveillance, drones, cyberwarfare, and paranoia, maintaining privacy is a crime. Schools are chipping and iris-scanning children. When police officers see an Army veteran, they don’t think “War hero.” They think, “PTSD. Terrorist. Ticking time bomb.” And when an innocent family is killed after a hacked 911 call? Cover it up, boys.
Just days after moving from Texas to California, fifteen year-old Alexis Parker's family is brutally killed in a botched police raid. Then, a few weeks later, the officers involved in the raid start dying in a series of “accidents”. At first it seems like a bad case of karma and coincidence, but -- after an injury, two deaths, and a pretty clear message -- it becomes entirely too clear. Someone, somewhere is picking off the Parkers’ killers.
In the meantime, Alex has disappeared. Before her parents and little sister were gunned down, she was just a precocious student with a penchant for computers and mischief. Expelled from three schools in Texas for suspected hacking and property damage, she has the skills to pull a drone out of the sky and send it crashing into a police cruiser. Could Alex be the phantom hacker, taking revenge for her family, one cop at a time?
Fuel -- the first installment of Electric Sheep Press’ young adult technothriller Fighting Fire -- sets the stage. Good people make bad decisions, and we all know what paves the road to hell.
In an all too realistic future of constant surveillance, drones, cyberwarfare, and paranoia, maintaining privacy is a crime. Schools are chipping and iris-scanning children. When police officers see an Army veteran, they don’t think “War hero.” They think, “PTSD. Terrorist. Ticking time bomb.” And when an innocent family is killed after a hacked 911 call? Cover it up, boys.
Just days after moving from Texas to California, fifteen year-old Alexis Parker's family is brutally killed in a botched police raid. Then, a few weeks later, the officers involved in the raid start dying in a series of “accidents”. At first it seems like a bad case of karma and coincidence, but -- after an injury, two deaths, and a pretty clear message -- it becomes entirely too clear. Someone, somewhere is picking off the Parkers’ killers.
In the meantime, Alex has disappeared. Before her parents and little sister were gunned down, she was just a precocious student with a penchant for computers and mischief. Expelled from three schools in Texas for suspected hacking and property damage, she has the skills to pull a drone out of the sky and send it crashing into a police cruiser. Could Alex be the phantom hacker, taking revenge for her family, one cop at a time?
Fuel -- the first installment of Electric Sheep Press’ young adult technothriller Fighting Fire -- sets the stage. Good people make bad decisions, and we all know what paves the road to hell.
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 11, 2013
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