The Enigma Factor: The Enigma Series, Book 1 (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
Rogue cyber-criminals want Jacob Michaels, a brilliant young programmer, to join them. He just doesn't know it yet. Jacob has the brains, expertise, and programming methods to get them what they want without discovery. With his best friend, Buzz, and a distractingly beautiful encryptionist in tow, Jacob enters the world of the Dark Internet here in the 21st century where the computer is the weapon of choice! With the cyber criminals engaged in international hacking, it's easy to have your identity slip through your fingers. No one, including Jacob, believes it when he learns he has been targeted. Jacob finds the space between cyber good and cyber evil difficult to navigate as well as highly deadly.
Jacob has settled into a quiet routine of a techno geek after his mother dies. The plans he made are disrupted when he discovers his life is in danger. He sets off on a mission that takes him into new technology views and exposes to him the inner-workings of unknown global technologists. Jacob learns that safeguards for technology are always evolving and being exploited. His challenge becomes how to keep ahead of the criminals and identify who to trust.
Book one of The Enigma Series brings relevant technology elements of programming, encryption, crypto-currency, identity theft, and hacking to highlight the professional excellence of Jacob, more so perhaps due to his sheltered upbringing. Explore the horrific damage cyber criminals can inflict as the award-winning authors, Breakfield and Burkey, weave a complex tale of danger, intrigue, and international cyber combat in their debut thriller, The Enigma Factor.
Customer Reviews
the undertone of this story is a sad one
Computer programmer and technology expert, Jacob Michaels helps with information protection and enjoys spending time correcting open programming just for fun. Each programmer has their own signature and when Jacob finds his in some heavy malicious programming, he takes it personally and begins his mission of finding the culprits and shutting them down. The problem is, who can he trust? His best friend is deeply involved and a drop-dead gorgeous encryptionist visiting New York join together to figure it out. Death, cyber hackers, romance and more set the stage for this deadly thriller.
Charles Breakfield and Roxanne Burkey slowly lay the groundwork for the romance, involvement and cyber activity in vivid and rich detail allowing the listener to see the story as it moves. While one may anticipate where this story is going, Breakfield/Burkey throws in some twists that throw the listener off track. Each character is developed fully, relationships are detailed and the cyber technology is done in terms that anyone can understand or at least grasp.
I wasn’t quite sure if this was going to be a book I could enjoy given the technological premise. I was very pleasantly surprised to find the book an easy listen, the authors creating the story and presenting the technology in a manner that allows everyone to enjoy.
The storyline moved slowly but that is good as there were detailed pieces that needed to be in place for the story to work. There’s not a lot of physical activity, but the intense mental and programming skill was enthralling. A good solid thriller that anyone will enjoy and find interesting.
The narrator, Steven Jay Cohen performed the narrative with great versatility and meticulously. His voice was appropriately pitched projecting just the correct amount of emotion. Steady and fluid, Cohen holds the audience captivated.
Overall, the authors and narrator did an excellent job of making this thriller feel natural and realistic. Makes me a tad bit nervous to post on social media now!
There were no issues with the quality or production of this audio book.
Audiobook was provided for review by the author.