Operated by the NSA, Echelon is the most pervasive eavesdropping network in history. Today it will capture sixty billion electronic communications. Imagine what it will do tomorrow…
In the near future, war is obsolete, conflict unknown, and peace reigns. Or so it seems.
Once part of the United States’ surveillance net, Echelon slipped its leash to become the covert power shaping world affairs. Now it controls global data, erases dissent, and smooths our flow into the future. Peace is what remains after everything else has been filtered out. But after years of silent control, the system is starting to crack.
Veteran operator Ryan Laing was engineered for Echelon — optimized, weaponized, biologically tuned for the architecture of control. As the system crumbles, Laing falls into a conspiracy to reboot the world in blood. With Sarah Peters — handler, hacker, and neo-punk savant — he races from the flooded beachfront of Venice, California, to a murderous jungle in Southeast Asia to uncover who in Echelon is playing God… and what greater hell will soon be unleashed.
Del Rey · Penguin Random House
Praise for Echelon
“Imaginative and intuitive… Conviser mines and mints a non-stop stream of visual images.”
“A fast-paced hurtle through a near-future dystopia, in the William Gibson mold — and not so far-fetched as you’d think.”
The Echelon trailer