The Boy on the Train

<p><b>"Sinuously written subtly subversive" - Beatrice Hitchman</b></p><p><b>Silently digitally a boy takes apart your family</b></p>
<p>A gripping techno-thriller that fuses Patricia Highsmith's psychological intensity with urgent climate activism. When teenage hacker Tom Snelling encounters coal broker Steve McInnes on a train a chance collision sparks a devastating game of digital cat-and-mouse. Tom a reclusive coding prodigy driven by eco-fury systematically dismantles Steve's life-planting child pornography triggering financial chaos and exposing the moral rot beneath corporate respectability. But Tom is being watched by Mel a gender-fluid intelligence operative while MI5's shadowy "Glyph" operation secretly manipulates them both. As Tom's algorithms threaten to collapse the global fossil fuel industry the question becomes: can one brilliant damaged boy save the planet by burning down the system—or will his digital vengeance consume everything including himself?</p>