Zombies, hackers, and U.S. Senators--what could be scarier? A modern horror sci-fi satire that imagines a world where cable news, social media and other mass media is used to infect the minds of the American public! Okay, 'imagines' might be a stretch. Forward Reviews says "its satirical edge is on point, raising the question of whether this novel has figured out what might be causing current troubles in politics and media."
This is Book 1 of the Spyware epic. Someone has just released a virus capable of infecting the most advanced computer of all -- the human brain. Fortunately, it has been discovered by a brilliant hacker. Unfortunately, that hacker is Eddy Pending.
Eddy isn't your typical criminal with a dark personal past. He's far more messed up than that. Eddy's past a maze of madness, bizarre family members, and truly terrible life choices. So, when the Men in Rose Coloured Glasses show up at his door armed with business cards that can kill, Eddy knows the right thing to do - run! Unfortunately for Eddy, that's just not going to work. So he might just have to fight back instead.
Of course, that's to going to be easy. Mobs of mass media controlled human zombie bots, self-aware software, corrupt politicians, and villainous billionaires are only going to complicate things for our unwilling hero.
Spyware is a unique dark and light mix of Evil Dead, Kurt Vonnegut, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 28 Days Later, a neuro-philosophical discourse on consciousness (Daniel Dennett, Stephen Pinker), and Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's also a very real, wrenching account of a small boy's struggle to understand a mother suffering from clinical depression. A skillfully woven blend that Kirkus Reviews called "...gleefully intricate..."