The Gomorrah Gambit - Hardcover

"The Gomorrah Gambit is a rollicking good cyber thriller-one to make William Gibson proud. And, but, it's more than that too. Tom Chatfield deftly inserts his encyclopedic knowledge of hacker history and prehistory into the headlong forward motion of this story, and the critical mass that discreetly builds up amounts to a prediction of the future. That's an aspect which might encourage us to exert a little choice on that future... while we still can."--Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising and Behind the Moon

"If espionage today is all about hack and counter-hack, which it clearly is, then Tom Chatfield has just written the classic twenty-first century spy thriller. Move over James Bond: Azi Bello has hacked your smartphone and he owns you."--Michael Ridpath, author of The Wanderer

"Tom Chatfield's The Gomorrah Gambit is fast and funny, dangerous and blinding-bright. It's a thriller about hackers and terrorism, but it's also a novel about the intersection of virtual worlds and the worlds of religious fanaticism, government agencies, and armies-where real people fight and bleed real blood, where they die real deaths. The Gomorrah Gambit is an adrenalin-rush of a book for our menacing times."--Paul Cody, author of Shooting the Heart

A seething knot of spies, hackers, terrorists, tech and humans: absolutely brilliant.--Carl Miller, author of The Death of the Gods

A stunning debut thriller from one of Britain's leading tech gurus. Page-turning, tech savvy and written with literary flair...I couldn't put it down.--Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy: Why It Matters and How to Get it

Tom Chatfield is a writer's writer. From deep inside tech culture, he has created a narrative that will hook and entertain you from first to last page. I look forward to more.--Dom Sagolla, co-creator of Twitter and author of 140 Characters

The Gomorrah Gambit is both thrilling and searing, entertaining and wholly unique...You'll look at your phone and laptop much differently after reading the last pages of this brilliant novel--Raymond Villareal, author of The People's History of the Vampire Uprising

It's almost impossible to believe that a book this thrilling and in-sync with cutting-edge themes of surveillance, security, and social engineering is Tom Chatfield's debut novel. Beyond mastering the art of the page-turner, Chatfield manages to explore a deep existential question without ever breaking from the fast-paced story--Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and coauthor of Re-Engineering Humanity

Punchy, powerful and one hell of a wild ride, this is thriller writing at its absolute best.--Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls

"The Gomorrah Gambit is gripping, intelligent, and stylish. Very, very good."--Sophie Hannah, author of Closed Casket

Dr Tom Chatfield is a British writer, broadcaster and tech philosopher. Interested in using digital technology to improve our experiences, his past books, including Netymology, explore digital culture and have appeared in over two dozen countries and languages. He lives near London with his family.