Bandwidth

"A great storyline with compelling characters that capture the essence of the era." -- Joseph Menn, author of Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet. Cyber-Security correspondent for the Financial Times. "Morrison's experience and passion for storytelling paint the pages - launching the reader on a modern journey of human contradiction and adventure." -- Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC "An ensnaring tale with unexpected touches of humor. Morrison nails it." -- Kourosh Karimkhany, TPM Media Bandwidth captures the two dominant threads of the first decade of the 21st century - greed and terrorism. Several years after the dot com funeral pyre, Hayden Campbell - a former CIA operative turned speechwriter - finds himself working for the sixth richest man in the world, Aaron Cannondale. From his perch, Hayden watches as a Dutch student discovers a technology to send voice, video and data through Europe's municipal water systems. Standing in the way are European technocrats, the Russian mafia, a Swiss banker and a new breed of terrorist intent on wreaking havoc on the West. Bandwidth takes us from the stoops of Brooklyn, to Moscow and Zurich, to the bike paths of Amsterdam and the backrooms of Brussels and Frankfurt, to Afghanistan and the hazy diwans of Yemen. Dazzled by his new boss but harboring a soft spot for the Agency, Hayden allows himself to be pulled back in for one more run -- a run that reminds him that people aren't what they seem, a run that reinforces his belief that greed has no sell-by date. Angus Morrison has been a Pulitzer-nominated financial journalist for Bloomberg News, and has written for The International Herald Tribune, The New York Observer and the Globalist. He has been a speechwriter for the U.S. Secretary of State and IBM's senior executive suite, and has served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. State Department. He lives with his wife and son in Alexandria, Virginia.