Code Zero

THE THRILLER THAT ROCKED THE INTERNET GENERATIONA Guardian thriller of the month: 'Elsberg is nothing if not prescient'_______ZERO, an anonymous activist, has given the world a warning: stop the tech giants before it's too late.But is anyone listening? Thousands of teenagers are signing up to Freemee, the biggest new social media site, uploading personal information in exchange for advice on what to eat, how to dress, even how to choose their friends. No-one questions what Freemee is doing with all that data. Until hundreds of users begin to take their lives.What will it take to bring down the Freemee mastermind, and who is up to the job?________'Worryingly real' Sunday Sport'Elsberg is utterly prescient' Guardian'Sinister and realistic' Glamour[Published in hardback as Zero]

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A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH: [Exposes] the dark underbelly of social media giants' societal control via the manipulation of data. Elsberg is nothing if not prescient. Barry Forshaw Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Marc Elsberg, Elsberg Marc
• Assisted by: Simon Pare (Translation), Pare Simon (Translation)
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.06.2019
• EAN: 9781784163488
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-348-8
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, Espionage & spy thriller, Technothriller, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Thrillers / Technological, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)