Terms of Use, Scott Allan Morrison
Terms of Use, Scott Allan Morrison
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Terms of Use

Author: Scott Allan Morrison

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/01/2016

Synopsis

Circles is the most popular social network in the world: vast, ubiquitous, and constantly evolving. Days before expanding into China, Circles suffers a devastating cyberattack—and a key executive is brutally murdered.As he fights to save the company he helped build, top engineer Sergio Mansour uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy that turns the power of Circles against its users. But as Sergio investigates, someone is watching his every move—someone ruthless enough to brand him a criminal and set a vicious hit man on his trail.Desperate to clear his name, Sergio turns to Malina Olson, a beautiful and headstrong doctor who has an agenda of her own. Now, he and Malina must survive long enough to expose the truth in a world without hiding places, where a single keystroke can shift the global balance of power.

About Scott Allan Morrison

Scott Allan Morrison was a journalist for almost twenty years, covering politics, business, and technology in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Morrison arrived in Silicon Valley as a reporter for the Financial Times during the darkest days of the dot-com crash. He later covered the Web 2.0 boom for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. Over the course of a decade, Morrison covered most of the world’s top tech companies and chronicled many of Silicon Valley’s greatest stories, including the rise of Internet insecurity and the explosion of social media. Before setting his sights on journalism, he spent four years teaching English and traveling in Southeast Asia. He speaks fluent Spanish and very rusty Mandarin. He lives in Northern California with his wife and his hockey sticks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on January 12, 2016

Did not finish. This is supposed to be a smart, hi-tech thriller. The plot is TV movie dumb, not smart. I groaned when a hitman suddenly shows up and starts shooting nerds at a social media company. (groan again) I got halfway through as our heroes evaded the FBI in a crack hotel full of prostitutes......more

Goodreads review by Tina on December 10, 2015

Incredible book on the possibilities of technology I gave this book 4 stars taking away one star simply because I reserve 5 stars for books that are just knock my socks off good! This book is good and suspenseful the story pulls you in and the character development is very well written and thought ou......more

Goodreads review by John on December 15, 2015

This book is OK, perhaps average or a little below average for books I've read. Morrison keeps things moving in a lively manner although some of the events seem a bit improbable to me. I thought the ending was kind of corny, but it was sweet and leaves the reader with a happy feeling. The good guys......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on January 22, 2017

Holy Cow! What an AMAZING book! Published in 2015, this is an eerie foreshadowing of what just happened in this presidential election. In Scott Allan Morrison's version, the bad guys are Chinese instead of Russian. The social media platform involved in trying to influence the election is a fictitious......more

Quotes

“Through its international conspiracy plots, Morrison’s fresh, immersive debut exposes the privacy dangers that lie in modern society’s commonplace relationship with social technology...This fast-paced technothriller will attract technophiles, Millennials, and fans of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.” —Library Journal “Scott Allan Morrison speeds through the synapses. In Terms of Use, Sergio Mansour has built the world’s biggest social network, and when others take control of his creation, it becomes a monster that threatens the balance of international power. Sergio must not only clear his name but save the world. Morrison is the Dan Brown of technothrillers.” —Stephen Templin, New York Times bestseller, SEAL Team Six and Trident’s First Gleaming “Terms of Use is a crackerjack techno-thriller from an author who knows the landscape. With menace, an expert pace, and lots of twists, Scott Allan Morrison exposes how our social-media lives can be hacked and turned against us. Both terrifying and thrilling, Terms of Use is a necessary cautionary tale for our current age.” —William Lashner, New York Times bestselling author of The Barkeep and Fatal Flaw

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