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The Tempus Project

A Brigitte Sharp thriller

Antony Johnston author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Eye Books

Published:12th May '20

Should be back in stock very soon

The Tempus Project cover

'Absolutely awesome, one of the best techno-thrillers I've read for a very long time. Bridge is a wonderfully painted character; flawed, vulnerable, tenacious and stubborn - roll over Lisbeth Salander, there's a new goth in town' M W Craven; 'Forget about Lisbeth Salander, here comes Brigitte Sharp! Unputdownable!' Johana Gustawsson; 'The perfect spy thriller for our time, with none of the baggage of Bond' Jay Stringer.

Brigitte Sharpe is back, and this time she's taking on ransomware, cryptocurrency, Russian hackers and the dread of turning thirtyIn The Exphoria Code, MI6 officer and elite hacker Brigitte Sharp foiled a terror attack on London that used stolen military drone software to deliver a 'dirty bomb'. Now Bridge is back, battling a series of hacks and ransom-ware attacks, masterminded by a hacker known only as 'Tempus', who is targeting politicians and government officials with impunity. Discovering that this campaign is linked to a cyber-attack on the London G20 summit, she is drawn into the dark-web world of crypto-currencies, Russian hackers and an African rebel militia. In another compelling cyber-thriller from the creator of Atomic Blonde, Bridge races against time to prevent a disaster that could alter the balance of global power forever.

'Johnston manages to make the world of "runtime executables" and "rootkits" thrilling - no mean feat - while also featuring car chases and old-fashioned mole-hunts on the streets of Tallinn' - The Times, 'Once again Antony Johnston shows his casual mastery of the thriller idiom. Brigitte Sharp is the most effective female espionage agent in fiction since Modesty Blaise' - Barry Forshaw, Crime Time, 'A breathless cat-and-mouse dance of shadowy operatives with mixed loyalties set against an evocative European background...delivers countless thrills and suspensions of the heartbeat' - Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time, 'Johnston has cracked the code on how to make a keyboard warrior into an exciting spy... Bridge is the hacker hero we didn't know we needed' - Spywrite, 'I have recently been reading a number of thrillers with strong female protagonists. The Tempus Project ranks as one of the best among them. [Delivering] a multi-faceted plot with complex characters and complicated relationships, Johnston takes his readers on both an international adventure and an intellectual experience' - Scintilla.Info , 'I love Brigitte! A fast-paced, fantastic read, full of twists and turns. If you like Mr Robot, this will definitely appeal' - Lecari's LiveJournal 2.0, 'Balancing action and technology, and making sense of cyber concepts in a refreshing way, Johnston has crafted an explosive thriller that excites on many levels' - Novel Novelist, 'It's an exciting ride, full of enough twists and turns to satisfy any thriller reader. The tension is played just right. The plot's intricate without becoming Byzantine. I can easily see myself coming back for another instalment' - Irresponsible Reader

ISBN: 9781785631795

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

402 pages