Spyware: It’s Not What You Think

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 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 a very real, wrenching account of a small boy’s struggle to understand his mother suffering from clinical depression. A skillfully woven blend that Kirkus Reviews called “…gleefully intricate…”