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Wavelength

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Pub Date Sep 01 2016 | Archive Date Sep 30 2016

Description

Wavelength captures the two dominant threads of the first decade of the 21st century - greed and terrorism. It takes us from the stoops of Brooklyn to the bike paths of Amsterdam, to Afghanistan, Moscow and Zurich, to the backrooms of Brussels and Frankfurt and finally to the hazy diwans of Yemen. Dazzled by his new boss but harboring a soft spot for the Agency, Hayden allows himself to be pulled back in for one more run - a run that reminds him that people aren't what they seem, a run that reinforces his belief that greed has no sell-by date. Several years after the dot com funeral pyre, Hayden Campbell a former CIA operative turned speechwriter finds himself working for the sixth richest man in the world, Aaron Cannondale. From this perch, Hayden watches as a Dutch student discovers a technology to send voice, video and data through Europe's municipal water system. Standing in the way are European technocrats, the Russian mafia, a Swiss banker and a new breed of terrorist intent on wreaking havoc on the West.

Wavelength captures the two dominant threads of the first decade of the 21st century - greed and terrorism. It takes us from the stoops of Brooklyn to the bike paths of Amsterdam, to Afghanistan...


A Note From the Publisher

Angus Morrison is a Pulitzer-nominated, former financial journalist for Bloomberg. He was a speechwriter for the U.S. Secretary of State and IBM's senior executive suite, and served as Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. State Department. He lives with his wife and son in Paris.

In college he flipped hamburgers and fixed fences in Wyoming. After graduation, he moved to Brussels where he lived in a nun's cell in a former convent that had been converted into communal living quarters. In his free time he frequented a small Flemish pub that counted a large black Bouvier named "Zeus" as its most loyal patron.

The Berlin Wall fell while Morrison was in Brussels. He hitchhiked from Brussels to Budapest in cars, motorcycles and fruit trucks. The first thing he saw upon arrival in Hungary were Cold War statues torn down as the communist star was being wrenched off the parliament by a crane.

Angus Morrison is a Pulitzer-nominated, former financial journalist for Bloomberg. He was a speechwriter for the U.S. Secretary of State and IBM's senior executive suite, and served as Senior...


Advance Praise

One of the most striking features of Angus Morrison’s book, Wavelength: A Novel, is the timeliness of the plot. It is an authentic twenty-first century rendition of what happens when personal greed is the primary motivator. Several times, there is reference to the dot.com collapse, and this venture into the bandwidth arena has similar possibilities. Mr. Morrison presents a cast of many characters throughout the world, but with Hayden being the central figure, it is not difficult for the reader to make the necessary connections. The author skillfully knits them together, seamlessly taking the reader from scene to scene, across the continents, from corporate boardrooms to a sail in the sea. The suspense builds, and the reader is compelled to find out how it all ends – and the identity of the man in the bathtub. -- Reviewed By Deborah Lloyd for Readers’ Favorite

Wavelength by Angus Morrison is a tech thriller set at the dawn of the 21st century and focuses heavily on the themes of greed and terrorism. Told from multiple points of view from computer programmers to Internet moguls, Wavelength takes the reader all over the globe from Brooklyn to Amsterdam, and gives us a peek into the underbelly of Russia and Afghanistan. Hayden Campbell is a former CIA operative who is now a speechwriter currently working for the sixth richest man in the world, Aaron Cannondale. He's there when Aaron decides to finance Peter Van Weert, a twenty-nine-year-old Dutch graduate student who plans to revolutionize the way we send data. But there are forces and people already at work, with plans on disrupting this new wave of technology and wreaking havoc on the free world.

Wavelength by Angus Morrison is a fast paced read, with writing that speeds along at a steady clip. With an intriguing premise, exotic locales, and an almost Wolf of Wall Street feel, Wavelength could easily blend in with many of the numerous thrillers Hollywood puts out, as it hits all of the notes of its genre. Luckily, it manages to set itself apart just enough with an interesting insider look at the post dot.com bubble, and with the idea of using water to bring high speed Internet to Europe. At first starting out by giving the reader a behind the scenes peek into tech start-ups, Wavelength by Angus Morrison soon delves into terrorism, something that has loomed large in the minds of Americans post-911. Mixed in with shady dealings and corruption, Wavelength is a good novel for fans of tech thrillers. -- Reviewed By Kayti Nika Raet for Readers’ Favorite

One of the most striking features of Angus Morrison’s book, Wavelength: A Novel, is the timeliness of the plot. It is an authentic twenty-first century rendition of what happens when personal greed...


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ISBN 9781944244736
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