Dark Fiber – a techno thriller

Dark Fiber is a techno-thriller written for adults. It is set in that mysterious world of the engineers that make the internet happen and it evolves around newly created and lost identities. The ultimate compression algorithm, the Internet’s holy grail, is the MacGuffin that carries the story from Berlin to Amsterdam to Silicon Valley and further on to Brooklyn and Boston, and maybe ultimately to death and doom. For the company that gets his hands on such an algorithm will own the world and therefore the stakes are high.

Matt Turing is the Chief Technical Officer of Giddyap, a company desperately trying to outsmart competitors and market leaders Google and Yahoo. Turing has found that ultimate compression algorithm, but, being a Giddyap employee, he realizes all profits will go to that company and not to him. Greed is good is Turing’s maxim and he introduces an alter ego, an avatar: Dallas Bard. He claims this Dallas Bard, a young rather autistic whizkid, approached him with the algorithm and convinces his boss to buy it.

When the time comes to close the multimillion-dollar deal between Giddyap and Dallas Bard, Turing needs someone to play his avatar in real life. He approaches Jonathan Kelder, a Dutch student. After some not too gentle persuasion Jonathan agrees.
What Turing doesn’t know is that Jonathan isn’t the gullible numbskull he seems. He studies journalism and he not only smells a scam, but a world class scoop too, one that will rocket his career as a journalist. So Jonathan plays along with Turing’s game while trying to uncover the scam.
But it turns out to be a deadly cat-and-mouse game and the outcome is not sure at all. Is it greed that will triumph or will Jonathan unveil Turing’s dark secrets in time?

Paul Sebes Literary Agency represents the Dark Fiber rights.