Life Online Series

Humans around the world depend on The Network for work, education, entertainment, communication, and replenishing their supplies. But when an untraceable drone blows a hole in the energy infrastructure, our complacent stability is shattered in seconds. Within days, the threat escalates into an undersea stand-off between the U.S. and China, and unleashes an unprecedented global criminal investigation into the digital infrastructure governments thought was the front line of cyber defense. With few humans prepared to respond to the crisis, global cyber diplomat Kade Laltanca assembles a high tech team of Intelligence agents at UN Special Command. But the emerging threat from The Network may not be a force humans can control. For the first time, SpecCom may not have the skill to unravel the code they invented. The machines may have become...too human Forced to align with reckless rogue technologists who have spent decades sabotaging every government cyber security action, the last known thinkers race to find the error in The Network code before the entire world falls into chaos. Will the threat of humanity's annihilation finally bring warring sides together to overcome the limitless power of online technology? Or have we reached the end of our control over machines? The Motion Clue is a riveting global future fiction action adventure from Washington and London to Canada and Botswana and on into the depths of the Pacific Ocean off Chile. Start the unprecedented Life Online speculative science fiction thriller series about our battle to survive in the world we are now creating, as we come to grips with the disturbing consequence of humanity's dependence on programmed machines, and the perilous benefits of the technology. Each Life Online book can be read independently. The Life Online Series #1 The Motion Clue #2 The Unbroken Line #3 The Probable Cause #4 The Downward Shift

Our dependence on the Internet literally comes back to haunt us in this gripping thriller in the Life Online series. What if your last text triggered the next world war? In the near future, the dead live on as virtual holograms interacting with humans through an omnipresent cyber Network. In Washington, DC, heartbroken U.S. President Arturo Solar is recklessly communicating with an illegal copy of his dead daughter's digital conscience. But his mourning is shattered when terrifying, undetectable drones appear all over the world and in outer space. Global militaries are left defense-less against the advanced machines capable of targeting and disarming any perceived threat. But where did the drones come from? And who is in control? To his shock, President Solar realizes a connection no one else can see, and scrambles to rally the world's last known thinkers to save the world from inevitable war. Kade Laltanca, the brilliant, beautiful, no-nonsense Commander of UN Special Command, is called back to DC to find and fix an inconceivable cyber conflict. Kade rallies a global team of technologists, intelligence agents and diplomats to search the world for clues to stopping the cyber glitch. But without the help of rogue technologists, their greatest enemies and biggest rivals, global law enforcement may stand no chance on their own. The team must risk the entire infrastructure of global cybersecurity to align with rogue techs and their unpredictable friends in the battle for humanity's survival. Criss-crossing the world from the Amazon rainforest to the heat of Cape Canaveral and the bitter winter cold in Moscow, The Unbroken Line is a thrilling future fiction international adventure from earth to outer space. This is Book 2 in the unprecedented Life Online speculative science fiction thriller series about our battle to survive in the world we are now creating as we come to grips with the disturbing consequence of humanity's dependence on programmed machines, and the visionary benefits of the technology. Each Life Online book can be read independently. The Life Online Series #1 The Motion Clue #2 The Unbroken Line #3 The Probable Cause #4 The Downward Shift

A terrifying look into a future when being online means being under anyone's control. In the near future, incarcerated terrorist Rafer Action, the world's most hated man walks out of a U.S. federal prison and disappears. The omnipresent global surveillance cyber Network designed to keep him behind bars...thinks he is supposed to be free. A stunned team of global cyber security agents battle to stop a horrific tragedy. But can last century tactics work in a next century world? In an earth crossing investigation, government and rogue technologists struggle to find common ground in the deadly chase to stop a determined criminal from unleashing the next level of cyber terrorism against a shocked and paralyzed world. Global Cyber Security leader Kade Laltanca and her experienced team at SpecCom chase clues from exotic Morocco to southern Italy to the shores of the Black Sea - confronting uncooperative colleagues, hostile locals and criminal technologists aligning on either side of the war for humanity's soul. Will they discover Rafer's victims before he can unleash his unfathomable plan? Or, this time is technology out of the game? The world's last known thinkers are back in the third installment of Case Lane's gripping next century Life Online cyber thriller series. The Probable Cause is Book Three in the Life Online book series of speculative science fiction technothrillers. Challenge your convictions about the parameters for right and wrong with this future fiction novel about one man's ability to galvanize thousands to join his hate movement, while using the most advanced technology tools of the next century to execute an ancient revenge. Exciting bonus content just inside the front cover: Listen to the free Prologue Podcast - a news report from the future - and feel the chill of Rafer Acton's deadly revenge before you get to the first page... Each Life Online book can be read independently. The Life Online Series #1 The Motion Clue #2 The Unbroken Line #3 The Probable Cause #4 The Downward Shift

Before the near future arrives in the Life Online series, Case Lane sets you up in today's shocking and disturbing elimination of privacy and online control with this far-sighted thrilling prequel about the origin of The Network. The Federal Security Commission - FedSec - is the most secretive and powerful national defense organization. The Secretary of State is a brilliant and relentless defender of government control. Together they are co-opting your entire digital life by covertly deploying the world's first global surveillance and online tracking system. When a mysterious flash drive detailing their plans falls into the hands of intrepid journalist, Dallas Winter, the most menacing people in DC mobilize to hide the explosive secret. But Dallas has a weapon. A genius cyber technologist determined to fight for an unsuspecting public. Can two master operators outpace America's free press and independent tech brains in the race for your digital future? If you are already asking the questions: Do you want individual privacy or do you want global security? What is the responsibility of business to protect consumer data? What is the role of government in managing technological progress? Can we prevent technology from taking control? The Origin Point begins providing unsettling answers. From the law-making halls of Washington, D.C. to the free-wheeling tech economy in San Francisco, the forces making decisions to change the world are already in the game and your life is in play. Learn who is bracing to advance, and who is in retreat, as the brightest minds lay the foundation for a future that may have already arrived. ***Includes Part One of The Motion Clue: Book 1 in the Life Online series***