Plus Sign: A techno-crime thriller

by David Wake

The mind-bending technothriller sequel to Hashtag and Atcode Fourteen teenagers dead! San Francisco, Santa Monica, St Petersburg... and now another mass suicide, here, in Newtown. Or is it murder? The case drops into Inspector Oliver Braddon’s inbox. The world demands answers. With everyone’s thoughts shared, liked and monitored, why haven’t the police solved the case in the usual 20 seconds? As the pressure builds, Braddon’s suspicions focus on a disturbing cult, the Church of the Transcendent Cloud, and tech-billionaire, Jacob Lamb, the creator of the Thinkersphere app, After Life – except that he’s dead. With more deaths due, Braddon needs to act... and soon. Plus Sign is a gritty, dystopian neo-noir that questions our obsession with religion and exposes a mind-blowing picture of what life might be like when your very thoughts are no longer your own.

342 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 19, 2020

About the author

David Wake started as a playwright, taking shows to London and the Edinburgh Fringe, and winning awards (and drinking lager out of one piece of silverware at the celebratory curry).

He completed an MA in Writing at Birmingham City University, co-edited the anthology and received that year's screenwriting award.

His novels cover SF, steampunk and more. He has two series, the Derring-Do Club adventures, the Thinkersphere near-future police procedurals and stand-alone ranging from samurai revenge thriller, political satire pub crawl and a cosy mystery.

He co-founded and co-runs New Street Authors, an indie publishing collective based in Birmingham, UK. He's the inventor of the drabble, which are stories of exactly 100 words.

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