An up-to-the-minute pacey thriller about the hacking
of Bitcoin
blockchain technology and cryptocurrency on a global scale.
Sveta Kovacs is a sociopathic Ukrainian expert in
blockchain
technology with a Ph.D in cryptography. Her murky hacking past and
many online scams have financed her Bitcoin mining operation in
Portugal.
Now she has found a way to exploit a weakness in
blockchain
technology and if she succeeds there are billions of dollars at her
disposal.
The new Russian CryptoRuble is threatened and the GRU
are on Kovacs’s
tail. Ex-Royal Marine anti-hero Steve Baldwin is still recovering
from the recent loss of his wife, an MI6 officer, and is guarding
Kovacs as a favor to an old friend.
An old enemy appears in the mix after MI6 has duped the
CIA. But what
is the terrorist’s role? Is it coincidence?
Geo-politics and international finance are never simple
and in the
new world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies the pressure points are
moving.
Fortunes are locked up in cryptowallets. Can they be
cracked? Baldwin
cannot move with the times, but he can fight back against those who
control him and those who threaten him. Double-dealing multiplies as
events move to a climax in Spain.
Baldwin has the chance to avenge his wife’s death, but
he is being
manipulated by MI6. Again.