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The incredibly realistic story of one family's struggle to survive the destruction of New York in a massive terror attack. Million-copy bestseller now in development for film by 20th Century Fox.

"I couldn't put it down...shows how dangerous our transition to an interconnected infrastructure has become." Karic Allega, Joint Military Cyber Command, US NAVY

NEW YORK GOES DARK IN THE DEAD OF WINTER...

A TERRIFYING MYSTERY BEGINS...

BUT WHO IS THE ENEMY? AND WILL THEY STRIKE AGAIN?

Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker struggling just to keep his family together when a string of disasters shreds the bustling megacity around them.

The Internet and communication networks go down...a deadly epidemic rages across the country...then a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world.

Days go by without contact to the outside world. Then weeks. Murder and vigilante justice replace law and order. Millions fight to survive.

In the chaos, conspiracy theories rage about a foreign cyberattack. Was it the North Koreans? The Russians? The Chinese? Might it be the first shockwave of a global shift in power? But even these questions become unimportant as Mike and his family struggle for survival in the wintry tomb of a doomed New York.

FROM THE BACK COVER

Matthew Mather is a leading cybersecurity expert who presented in Washington to the FBI and CIA, warning of the impending danger of possible cyberattacks like the one that "hobbled Atlanta" in March of 2018 as reported by The New York Times.

Translated in twenty three countries, CyberStorm is a worldwide bestseller, a new apocalyptic disaster classic in the spirit of On the Beach, Alas Babylon, One Second After, and Lucifer's Hammer that will appeal to fans of Tom Clancy and Brad Thor.

Award-winner of the GoodReads Choice Awards in 2013, millions of readers voted CyberStorm into the Top 20 of its category on Goodreads. It has ranked as the number one bestseller in Amazon's technothrillers, conspiracy, military, post-apocalyptic, terrorism, and science fiction categories.

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New York Is Cut Off...

As the holiday season rolls into full swing, a monster winter storm descends on New York City as a string of bizarre events grips the nation. First the internet and cell phones go blank, then the power goes out just before New York is completely cut off....

A Terrifying Mystery Begins...

At first, residents of the city treat it like any other black out, but then as the days and weeks go by without contact with the outside world--and New York is blanketed by feet of snow--desperation and fear set in. In the chaos, conspiracy theories rage. This is the very personal story of how one family survives, and of the worst and very best of humanity in the face of catastrophic disaster.

A Worldwide Bestseller

CyberStorm is an international bestseller, translated into over twenty-four foreign languages including most recently Chinese and Russian. This scary, thought provoking and believable tale of cataclysmic survival has gripped readers all around the world.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "BRILLIANT... authors like Mather are leading the way." --WIRED Magazine on Cyber series

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Mather creates characters you've instantly known your whole life." --BOING BOING editor Jason Weisberger

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Relentless pacing...bombshell plot twists." --Publishers Weekly praise for The Dreaming Tree

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Terrifying because so plausible." --Washington Post bestseller Steven Konkoly

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Michael Crichton reincarnated." --New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sansbury Smith

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Not only a great thriller, but a wake up call." --FBI Special Agent Brent Watkins (retired)

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I'm excited to announce that on July 12th, 20th CENTURY FOX acquired the film rights to CyberStorm in a "major" film deal -- more news to come soon...
I'd like to thank my editor, Gabe Robinson (previously at Harper Collins in NYC but now freelancing) for his incredible help in getting CyberStorm assembled and edited. I'd also like to thank my small army of dozens of beta readers who combed through the early manuscripts--this is as much my novel as all of theirs, and a testament to the power of the internet in shaping new media. I have a full list of everyone who helped me contained in the novel itself.
Finally, I'd like to thank all of the members of the cybersecurity community who lent me their time and insight into making this as realistic a scenario as possible of what a full-scale cyber event could like. I have named several key individuals at the start of the book.
Thank you everyone, and hope you enjoy the read!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ PhutureNews Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 23, 2013
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0991677196
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0991677191
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.83 x 9 inches
Book 1 of 3 ‏ : ‎ World War C
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Amazon Charts Bestseller Matthew Mather's books have sold millions of copies, accumulated over 100,000 ratings on Goodreads, Audible and Amazon, been translated and published in over 24 countries across the globe, and optioned for multiple movie and television contracts. He began his career as a researcher at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines before starting and working in high-tech ventures ranging from nanotechnology to cyber security. He now works as a full-time author of speculative and science fiction thrillers.

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Dave K
A suprisingly effective and grounded story
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2013
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I absolutely love the technology/virtual world genre that's received a second life recently. I've been plowing through books like Ready Player One, Snow Crash, Neuromancer and more. I find them, and absorb their digital goodness, using the Kindle software of course!, book after book. On a recent trip to PAX EAST I needed a new book in case I couldn't sleep on my flight. So I took to the Kindle section and started browsing around, and stumbled across CYBERSTORM. A quick read of the synopsis and I figured it would be a fun book to start my trip with, and obviously you can't beat the price. So I picked it up.

Needless to say even though I was exhausted boarding my plane to Boston... I didn't sleep a wink. I was instantly hooked. Matthew Mather has crafted a tale that pulls you in with it's grounded nature. Unlike so many books it's very grounded in reality, and shows you how we're on our way to setting the foundation for those "futuristic" books mentioned above.

His tale doesn't involve cyber worlds, or immersive games... but instead shows us how the world we live in now is already reliant so much on data technology we take for granted every day with our phones and general internet access. How so much of our world is plugged into the data highway, and we don't even know it. Then what happens when that goes away, and we are left to fend for ourselves because we've grown so reliant on those technologies being a part of our life. It's completely grounded nature makes it compelling, scary, and instantly draws you in.

The thing, though, that makes this book great is that it's really a story about a group just trying to survive. He set a believable premise, which yes even as cheesy as it "COULD" have been talking about the reliance on data he does it so well. He then tells us a tale of how this event changes the life of our group, and what would they do to survive? It's very Robert Kirkman to a degree. While he constantly gives us insight into why this event is causing all the damage it is we're still very much following this group mainly, and how they survive and in some ways reshape their corner of the world.

By the end of the book I was craving more. I had to know more about Vince! Here's the best part... I never read the ATOPIA Chronicles. This book is the perfect segway into his ATOPIA compendum in which we learn more about a few characters in the book (basically this book gives us their beginnings, and motivation) and we start to see that cyber world made famous by some of the books above become a reality in ATOPIA and Cyberstorm set that transition in such a way it feels almost plausable!

I'm rambling, which I have a tendency to do. So let's sum the above up in 3 sentences.
- A great read about an event that changes our world, but in a way that's grounded and not via the typical threat of death via nukes, etc.
- It's a great tale of a group of people stuck in this situation, and how they adapt and survive.
- It creates a great bridge into ATOPIA which jumps forward with the tech, but now it feels almost natural because Cyberstorm set your mind on that path.

I highly recommend the read.

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Kate Fredericks
A Very Good Book - A Fast Read
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2013
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Cyberstorm is a very good book. The grammar is excellent, sentence structure way above average. No repetitive words or ongoing, annoyingly long sentences. The main characters were very well described and I became quite fond of them. I usually start my reviews of books commenting on the structure of writing, because so many self published books can be weak in these areas.

The story is exciting and it was, for me, a real page turner. The reason I gave this book four stars instead of five is because while I know the premise is possibly one of the most legitimate as an end-of-times novel, I thought it stretched the story a bit thin in places.

********SPOILER ALERT**********

According to this author, a convergence of two catastrophes brought about the end times. A prolonged snow storm in NYC, and a particularly evil virus throughout the digital world as we are becoming more and more dependent on cyber machine parts to run our important delivery systems to keep us in the comfort we know and depend upon. Running water and sewerage stops, electricity is cut off, the whole delivery system of goods needed (heat, food, clothing, etc.) comes to an end. The story was well written and I enjoyed it very much. However, I had to suspend my own expectations in order to continue reading and enjoying the story. Toward the end, the author had the main character, who was starved and terribly dehydrated, walk 60 miles in one day to find out what was happening and if the government was trying to solve the problem. I felt that in reality, TWO of the people involved should have gone for a buddy system sort of thing, because there was no way that main character was going to be able to walk 6 miles, let alone 60 miles. Perhaps the most unbelievable part came near the end, where China was very involved in a humanitarian aide situation to help the northeast corridor of the U.S. pull out of the event. I found it a bit too utopian for my taste.

Other than that, I enjoyed this book very much and if you are looking for a good, scary, well written, end of times novel to read, I highly recommend Cyberstorm. Be aware that this premise IS based on what many, including our own government, believe could and might happen as we become more and more dependent on digital technology to take over our most basic needs in life. Whole departments in our government today are set up to constantly monitor and defend against ever more proliferating savvy hackers. I admit that knowing this could come true (albeit without a five foot snowstorm, which was a good plot device to keep us on the edge of our seats) was seriously quite frightening to me.

As I said, if you can suspend your beliefs about some of the more unrealistic plot devices, DO read Cyberstorm. Definitely in my top tier of good end times books!

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J Bryden Lloyd
"What's the worst that can happen?" Do you want to find out?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2013
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Writing Style - 4.5/5.0 (Excellent)
This is a quite superb first person narrative. I found the characterisation believable and the way the narrator interacts with both his immediate environment and the wider world around him, as the scale of the disaster increases, are well thought through and it is clear to see the work that has gone into this.
The dialogue is nicely balanced, and very often is an excellent link through the descriptive, to pull the reader even further into the story.

Character Development - 5.0/5.0 (Outstanding)
The opening of the story is a minor scene with massive impact; one repeated nearer the end of the book, and to be honest, it needs it. Immediately you are introduced to a group of characters you genuinely feel very little about, and a gathering that reflects the tedium of modern life within a small community. The familiarity between the characters is almost a put-off... but what it serves to the reader, is a perfect slice of `normality'.
When things begin to change around the characters, I found the development of every single one of them was brilliantly drawn. Even the children had an almost preordained pattern to survival, though they were carefully protected from the reality of the situation developing around them.
The plots and sub-plots serve up some superb personalities, all thrown into the same melting pot, all with their own ideas for clawing their way out.

Descriptive - 4.5/5.0 (Excellent)
People, places, environments, atmosphere... so many descriptive targets hit over and over again, as the world changed around the main characters and they were forced to adapt ever-further.
Perhaps some of the descriptive fell back on a knowledge of New York many would not have - me included. But the author keeps the familiarity of the landscape, despite the obvious changes and problems, as the backbone to his characters, and this works brilliantly when he suddenly moves them into a new environment, allowing the reader to share the discomfort, but never relenting on the quality of the work.

Language & Grammar - 4.5/5.0 (Excellent)
I don't recall anything in the grammar or editing that constituted an error. To be frank, I was so engrossed in the read, I likely wouldn't have been bothered if I had.
The use of language, the work and research into the grammatical nuances of the systems and problems, is excellent. The grammar and word selection generally, equally so. I did feel there were one or two times in the book when the dialogue got a little bogged down, usually when there were several things going on, but this was a very minor consideration and one which, in the grand scheme of things, was easy to work through.

Plot - 5.0/5.0 (Outstanding) - NO SPOILERS
"What's the worst that can happen?"
Words we are all guilty of thinking or saying during minor crises in our otherwise uneventful lives. I suppose it is fair to say that this book dumps every single crisis you could think of in the lap of a normal, young family and those living around them.
It shows that disaster is no more or less of an issue, irrespective of how well connected you are, or how well educated, or how rich.
Basically, when the systems stop working and the lights go out, you will either survive or you won't.
The underlying plot is superbly pinned amongst several sub-plots, and cleverly built around the single, subjective view of the narrator who sometimes takes things at face value without properly considering the alternatives.

General - 4.5/5.0 (Excellent)
A thoroughly enjoyable read. Maybe not `impressive' at the outset but as things take off, the story just gets better and better. True-to-life characters combine and face a startling reality as the world around them falls apart.
Everything about this is good. From the cover art to the final flourish at the end. Great read. Excellent story. I'll be looking out for more from this talented writer.

A definite FIVE stars.

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A fascinating and sometimes frightening look at what could be
Reviewed in Australia on May 7, 2020
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Mike is a typical man, living a normal life, he's married to Lauren has a young child Luke and great friends and neighbours - in particular Chuck and Suzie. This novel is about how they all cope with the disaster that hits the world and New York in particular, no power, soon no water, no internet, no knowledge of what is happening elsewhere. The speed with which it escalates into a battle for life and death took me by surprise and made me wonder if this is how it would affect the people in real life. I'm still not sure, and as an outsider to the American obsession with guns - even though Mike was not a 'gun toting American' I still wonder whether things would escalate so fast because so many people do have weapons. There are still good strangers in the story who help one another, as I think most people would, but who knows?

I was thinking about the story when I wasn't reading it, the best thing about a good book. The only thing that I found a bit incongruous was the belief mentioned a few times that the US is more connected than anywhere else in the world via internet, which seems very unlikely. Highly recommending this novel.

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Otto David
An excellent doomsday scenario
Reviewed in Japan on September 17, 2013
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Cyberstorm is a book that ponders on what would happen if a cyber-attack were to occur on New York City. I'll admit, at times when I was reading, I was wondering whether this scenario could realistically happen. But I then realised that these intricate computer systems we set up, rely on and take for granted do have flaws. We are connected round the clock, plugged in to the internet through one of our many devices. Everything from power plants to cash registers rely on it too. The story in this book postulates that they could be exploited and used against us, and that is terrifyingly plausible at the least. It encourages you to question how entrenched in these systems we really are these days.

Speaking about intricate computer systems and devices, I picked up the Kindle book for $3 (on amazon.co.jp, but it's more or less the same price on amazon.com), which is a bargin. It's so well written, though, that it's worth it at any price. Read it!

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José
Impressive and with an unexpected end
Reviewed in Brazil on July 5, 2022
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The narrative is great, though in some points one can consider it slow. While reading it, I could--(un)fortunately--realize how dependent of TI we are nowadays, even in the simplest things, without suspecting.

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What a modern apocalypse could be
Reviewed in India on August 27, 2018
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-1 star for the ending was quite disappointing. Otherwise an interesting read

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