The Crime Warp

I will confess straight up, I’m a techno-phobe. My comfort zone is historical crime and even (I blush) cosy crime. But I have come to love the Internet as it allows me to sate my hunger for information. At least until my eyes go blurry.   I reckon I’ve become dependent on information technology and Internet communication. I don’t understand the digital revolution but I take whatever crumbs are on offer for techno plebs like me.  So can you imagine the Internet being shut down without warning? Enter a world in the not-so-distant future where cypher punks (sic) wreak havoc with a world unfamiliar to my kind ie. the despised ‘ageing non-techie’. Emoticoins are the currency of true value, people wear something called mesh, no one is who they appear, hiding behind fictitious online identities. Imagine a world where hackers, barely out of shorts, are in charge. You have entered the setting of Lucky Ghost, a thriller for the cyber generation. Follow the exploits of journa...