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"Thrilling . . . one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself. . . . The setup promises furious action, and Percy delivers, like [Richard] Matheson, like King. . . An awfully impressive literary performance." - New York Times Book Review "Masterful crafting . . . a horror story for our times." - Minneapolis Star Tribune The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew, including a twelve-year-old who has been fitted with a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness; a technophobic journalist; a one-time child evangelist with an arsenal in his basement; and a hacker who believes himself a soldier of the Internet. Set in present-day Portland, The Dark Net is a cracked-mirror version of the digital nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back. "This is horror literatures bebop, bold, smart, confident in its capacity to redefine its genre from the ground up. Read this book, but take a firm grip on your hat before you start." - Peter Straub
About the Author
Benjamin Percy is an award-winning novelist, comics writer and screenwriter.
His new novel, The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette, 2015) , is a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga. He is also the author of the novels Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, 2013) and The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010) , as well as two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Grand Central/Hachette 2013; Carnegie Mellon, 2006) .
He writes the Green Arrow series for DC Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire (where he is a contributing editor) , GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, and many other magazines and journals.
His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writers' Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
His original crime series, Black Gold, about the oil fields of North Dakota, is currently in development with Starz and produced by Fremantle Media. The pilot will be shot by filmmaker James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, Smashed) . With Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) he is adapting his novel Red Moon into a series for FOX TV.
Learn more about him at www.benjaminpercy.com.
