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HACK3R
In a world where the line between reality and fantasy is blurred, where the only decent living to be made is in the underground, one young hacker is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Will his quest for fortune lead to an early retirement, or to his whole world crashing down around him? Hunted by the FBI and the Mafia, this hacker must survive in a perilous future, and fight for the only thing he has left: his freedom.
108 pages, Paperback
Published December 26, 2015
About the author
Alexander Ferrick
9 books4 followersAlexander attends college part-time, while working to support both his retired father, and his extremely problematic addiction to writing. He has been accused of being both cynical and naive, both shy and arrogant, and both cold and overly-emotional. All of which he categorically denies... sometimes. When Alexander is not writing or thinking about writing, he is asleep.
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February 11, 2016
Hack3r, by Alexander Ferrick, might actually be my favorite book. I discovered it while browsing through books available for free on Kindle Unlimited, and once I started it I could not stop until it was over. I literally made a goodreads account just so that I could rant about this book.
Mr. Ferrick used vivid detail and imagery to tell the story of a lovable hacker named Richard, who gets roped into a quest for the hacker's holy grail: a digital skeleton key. In the course of his adventure he finds himself not only hiding from the FBI, but trying to take down the mob.
Hack3r has all of the best pieces of my favorite works from multiple genres, including both science-fiction and contemporary action-adventure. I strongly recommend this book to EVERYONE. Read it. You will love it.
Mr. Ferrick used vivid detail and imagery to tell the story of a lovable hacker named Richard, who gets roped into a quest for the hacker's holy grail: a digital skeleton key. In the course of his adventure he finds himself not only hiding from the FBI, but trying to take down the mob.
Hack3r has all of the best pieces of my favorite works from multiple genres, including both science-fiction and contemporary action-adventure. I strongly recommend this book to EVERYONE. Read it. You will love it.
January 31, 2016
A really good premise which mostly fulfilled its promise. Hard to say very much without revealing any of the plot twists.
Most of the story was quite riveting. I've always felt hackers were akin to magicians, albeit naughty ones doing very clever things with strange strings of letters, numbers and symbols which makes as much sense to the non computer programmer as ancient Etruscan. Adding virtual reality to the hacking was a quite mind-boggling idea and the author communicated the ideas clearly and it was easily understood.
Apart from the too rapid capitulation of a central bad guy (I was expecting a brilliantly thought-out strategy and it was somewhat of a letdown and it was also why I deducted a star), it was an extremely enjoyable story well told. The editing and proof reading was pretty good too.
I hope to read more by this new, to me, author.
Highly recommend, it's a quick, twisty high-tech sci-fi read.
Most of the story was quite riveting. I've always felt hackers were akin to magicians, albeit naughty ones doing very clever things with strange strings of letters, numbers and symbols which makes as much sense to the non computer programmer as ancient Etruscan. Adding virtual reality to the hacking was a quite mind-boggling idea and the author communicated the ideas clearly and it was easily understood.
Apart from the too rapid capitulation of a central bad guy (I was expecting a brilliantly thought-out strategy and it was somewhat of a letdown and it was also why I deducted a star), it was an extremely enjoyable story well told. The editing and proof reading was pretty good too.
I hope to read more by this new, to me, author.
Highly recommend, it's a quick, twisty high-tech sci-fi read.
January 4, 2016
I should first disclose that I am a bit biased. I wrote HACK3R, but if you enjoy well-written Fiction, and in particular if you are interested in Cyberpunk Science Fiction, then you will love this book almost as much as I do.
HACK3R centers on a professional thief named Richard in the year 2072, who makes his living breaking into secure virtual-reality environments (hacking), but Richard's next job just might become his last. Hiding from the FBI, running from the Mafia, and trying to learn the true intentions of a femme fatale hacker named Yvonne, Richard must navigate an unpeasant future, and fight for the one thing he has left: his freedom.
HACK3R centers on a professional thief named Richard in the year 2072, who makes his living breaking into secure virtual-reality environments (hacking), but Richard's next job just might become his last. Hiding from the FBI, running from the Mafia, and trying to learn the true intentions of a femme fatale hacker named Yvonne, Richard must navigate an unpeasant future, and fight for the one thing he has left: his freedom.
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