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The Hacker: A Cyberpunk Thriller Short Story
Kristi Helgusson trusts code not people. In the shadows of Oslo and London, the gifted young student and part-time hacker pays her university fees ghosting through firewalls and erasing digital footprints for corporate clients. But London’s neon pull leads her straight into the grip of Jerry Hall, the ruthless fixer for Eddie Fowler’s East End crime syndicate.
Forced to become their invisible cybercrime weapon, Kristi is trapped in a downward spiral toward a life of crime. She decides to escape the mob's clutches and use their own data against them and bring it all crashing down. With her explosive weapon downloaded she goes on the run. But no one walks away from the mob that easily.
When her escape plan implodes, Kristi becomes their most wanted. Hunted through rain-slick streets, tracked by corrupted networks, and betrayed at every turn, she must outthink the criminals using the only battlefield she truly the digital world.
The Hacker is a razor-sharp cyber-thriller revealing the origins of Kristi Helguson, the heroine of the Daniel Sawyer series of thriller novels. The Hacker is a pulsating, fast-paced short story where freedom has a price and Kristi is about to learn its true cost.
The Daniel Sawyer series of thrillers are available in paperback or eBook formats. The accompanying short story series, including The Hacker, Pinned Down and the upcoming The Viking, tell the enthralling often death defying backstories of the main series characters.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HACKER IS A SHORT STORY NOT A FULL SIZED NOVEL
Forced to become their invisible cybercrime weapon, Kristi is trapped in a downward spiral toward a life of crime. She decides to escape the mob's clutches and use their own data against them and bring it all crashing down. With her explosive weapon downloaded she goes on the run. But no one walks away from the mob that easily.
When her escape plan implodes, Kristi becomes their most wanted. Hunted through rain-slick streets, tracked by corrupted networks, and betrayed at every turn, she must outthink the criminals using the only battlefield she truly the digital world.
The Hacker is a razor-sharp cyber-thriller revealing the origins of Kristi Helguson, the heroine of the Daniel Sawyer series of thriller novels. The Hacker is a pulsating, fast-paced short story where freedom has a price and Kristi is about to learn its true cost.
The Daniel Sawyer series of thrillers are available in paperback or eBook formats. The accompanying short story series, including The Hacker, Pinned Down and the upcoming The Viking, tell the enthralling often death defying backstories of the main series characters.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HACKER IS A SHORT STORY NOT A FULL SIZED NOVEL
48 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 12, 2025
About the author
Simon Eyre
5 books3 followersSimon Eyre is a company director and author of the Daniel Sawyer series, including Getting Away With It and The Deadly Embrace.
He lives with his wife near the Suffolk coast. His love for writing began at ten years old when his Middle School English teacher took him and other students to see Macbeth at a suburban theatre near Sheffield. After a career in the telecoms and computing industries that spanned over thirty successful years, he finally took a “sabbatical” to focus on fulfilling a dream - to publish his first novel. After almost three years of hard work, he has successfully published his debut.
He targets his stories at readers like himself, men aged 18-100, but also strives to make his books accessible and enjoyable to a broader spectrum of readers. Hence, he tries to include elements such as strong leading female characters who are pivotal to the story, rather than secondary to the male hero.
He has lived and worked around the world, including Bangladesh, Malaysia, Italy, USA and Europe and has also travelled extensively for pleasure. He tries to use his experiences in his stories, taking the reader on a global adventure as they navigate the story.
When he’s not writing, Simon is obsessed with military history and, in particular, the human element of war, such as how ordinary people are impacted and react to difficult and perplexing situations. He also loves travel and has an established, popular travel blog website called Reluctant Backpacker. To relax, he "enjoys" nothing more than watching his favourite football team, Sheffield United. He also likes to hike.
Simon is already working on book number two in the Daniel Sawyer trilogy titled Deadly Embrace.
To read more about Simon Eyre and find out about his future projects, visit his author web pages via the Reluctant Backpacker site.
He lives with his wife near the Suffolk coast. His love for writing began at ten years old when his Middle School English teacher took him and other students to see Macbeth at a suburban theatre near Sheffield. After a career in the telecoms and computing industries that spanned over thirty successful years, he finally took a “sabbatical” to focus on fulfilling a dream - to publish his first novel. After almost three years of hard work, he has successfully published his debut.
He targets his stories at readers like himself, men aged 18-100, but also strives to make his books accessible and enjoyable to a broader spectrum of readers. Hence, he tries to include elements such as strong leading female characters who are pivotal to the story, rather than secondary to the male hero.
He has lived and worked around the world, including Bangladesh, Malaysia, Italy, USA and Europe and has also travelled extensively for pleasure. He tries to use his experiences in his stories, taking the reader on a global adventure as they navigate the story.
When he’s not writing, Simon is obsessed with military history and, in particular, the human element of war, such as how ordinary people are impacted and react to difficult and perplexing situations. He also loves travel and has an established, popular travel blog website called Reluctant Backpacker. To relax, he "enjoys" nothing more than watching his favourite football team, Sheffield United. He also likes to hike.
Simon is already working on book number two in the Daniel Sawyer trilogy titled Deadly Embrace.
To read more about Simon Eyre and find out about his future projects, visit his author web pages via the Reluctant Backpacker site.
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