"'This is the new frontier of warfare and McNab is on the front line' - Michael Robotham The first novel in a new series by Andy McNab about a former SAS soldier turned cryptography and cyber-weapons specialist. From the central bank of El Salvador to a tantalum mine in Rwanda the Acropolis Museum in Athens to the world's biggest freeport in Dubai Shadow State is a cutting-edge thriller about the the computer codes - the ones and zeroes - that shape our world. Jackson Pike is from the North of England doesn't mince his words and has seen a thing or two. After the SAS he developed his gifts in computer science specialising in encryption and codebreaking. Then he went rogue selling his services to the highest bidder - a mercenary and amoral business but increasingly lucrative and in demand. In the opening scene of the novel he is sprung from a Cambodian prison by a woman calling herself Melody Jones. She makes him an offer - to steal something famously hard to steal..."
