Robert lives in North East England. He works in Recruitment by day, and is usually to be found knee deep in a pile of books as a reader and reviewer by night. He has recently signed with The Blair Partnership, and his debut crime novel, What Falls Between the Cracks was released in Spring 2018.
Samantha Morpeth is a teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her Mother is in prison, leaving her to care for her younger sister with learning difficulties, and dealing with bullies at school. As if this isn't enough, she's being blackmailed by a stranger, threatening to publish all her secrets online for the world to see.
Jack Parlabane is a reporter looking for a way to regain his credibility; to show he's still relevant in the word of journalism. Looks like he's found it as well, but at a cost, as a former source who operates on the wrong side of the law, calls in an old debt. If Jack doesn't help, he risks everything coming crashing down around him. The two are pitted against the same nameless tormentor, and both have to decide how far they'll go to keep their secrets hidden, and where their true loyalties lie.
A fast-paced thriller, equally as compelling whether were seeing it through Sam's eyes, or Jack's, and takes us deep into the murky world of cyber-criminals, world class hackers, and industrial espionage. If you don't already have a healthy fear of who or what lurks online, then you soon will after reading this. The to-and-fro between Sam and Jack makes for a great pair of leading characters, and Chris Brookmyre does a cracking job of keeping the tension cranking up, as we're dragged from real world cliff-hanger, to online hack-gone-wrong and back again.
It's the first in the Parlabane series I've read, but I'm already looking through the back catalogue to get another fix, which tells you all you need to know.
