Peter Rehnke (left), Marc Elsberg (middle), Frank Bodin (right)
Who moves on the net, for which there is no escape! They know who we are, where we are – and WHAT we will do next!
London. In a chase a boy is shot. His death leads the journalist Cynthia Bonsant to the acclaimed Internet platform Freemee. It collects and analyzes data – promising its millions of users a better life and more success. Only one warns of Freemee and the power that the online newcomer could bestow on a few: ZERO, the world’s most wanted online activist. As Cynthia begins to research more closely, she becomes a hunted herself. But in a world full of cameras, data glasses and smartphones, there is no escape …
Up-to-the-minute and threatening: the transparent person under control _
Marc Elsberg was born in 1967 in Vienna. He was a strategy consultant and creative director for advertising in Vienna and Hamburg and a columnist for the Austrian daily Der Standard. Today he lives and works in Vienna. With his international bestsellers BLACKOUT, ZERO and HELIX, he also established himself as a master of science thriller. BLACKOUT and ZERO were honored by Bild der Wissenschaft as the Knowledge Book of the Year in the category Entertainment and made him a sought-after interlocutor of politics and business.