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Relentlessly suspenseful and disturbingly timely, Bounty summons a chilling vision of our Internet culture gone mad, where freedom, privacy, and the rule of law are demolished by a crisis of nightmare proportions - and the future of justice lies in the hands not of the bravest but the most brutal. When a notorious Wall Street vulture is executed in his high-rise office by a snipers bullet, its the kill shot heard around the world. Welcome to Bounty4Justice.com, a rogue website for vigilante assassins, where outraged citizens bid up bounties on corporate crooks and corrupt elites. As the number of targets soars, amateur bounty hunters and professional hit men compete to exterminate the condemned, "proof-of-death" videos become Internet sensations, and the self-styled Robin Hood pulling the strings threatens to plunge the international community into anarchy. Along with other law enforcement agencies across the globe, the FBI and its agents on the case - led by Roman Novak and Rosemary Michaels - are desperately seeking a way to outmaneuver and overpower an all-but-invisible adversary with millions of dollars at its disposal and the ability to cripple the most sophisticated attackers with a keystroke. Following a black-hat hacker extraordinaire down a rabbit hole of firewalls, encryption, and unbreakable codes leads Novak and Michaels into the virtual underworld of the darknet - a seemingly impenetrable haven for the illicit and illegal where Bounty4Justices mastermind is almost certainly hiding. But just when the agents think they are close to breaching their quarrys digital fortress, they find themselves stalked by an army of cyber outlaws out for blood.Advance praise for Bounty: "[Michael] Byrnes fuses science fiction and espionage in this smart, near-futuristic dystopic thriller.... The action-packed story line is full of plot twists and explores such topical matters as cyberterrorism and hacktivism. Byrnes raises some serious questions about humankinds increasing dependence on - and assimilation with - the digital world." (Publishers Weekly) "Vigilantism goes viral in this thriller about a website that pays bounties for the killing of unpunished child abusers, financial scammers, human rights violators, and other bad actors.... Charles Bronsons Death Wish meets the Internet." (Kirkus Reviews) "This is a grand-scale spin on the vigilante story.... Byrness vigilante offers a twist on the theme: hes mastered cyberspace to the point where he can outsource some of his to-do list, offering a cash reward on his website to anyone who will kill the crooked banker...and the weasel who bilked Medicare for $127 million. And hes just getting started." (BOOKLIST )



About the Author

Michael Byrnes

Michael Byrnes is the internationally bestselling author of BOUNTY, The Sacred Bones, The Sacred Blood, and the The Genesis Plague.

Mike earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Montclair State University and his MBA from Rutgers University.

He currently lives in Florida with his wife and three children.

For more information, visit www.michaelbyrnesauthor.com or @MByrnesAuthor.



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