The Dark Net
The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And in Percy's novel, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. These demons are threatening to spread virally into the real world unless they can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew: twelve-year-old Hannah, who has been fitted with the Mirage—a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness—wonders why she sees shadows surrounding some people; Lela, a technophobic journalist, has stumbled upon a story nobody wants her to uncover; Mike Juniper, a one-time child evangelist who suffers from personal and literal demons, has an arsenal of weapons stored in the basement of the homeless shelter he runs; and Derek, a hacker with a cause, believes himself a soldier of the internet, part of a cyber army akin to Anonymous.
They have no idea what the Dark Net really contains.
Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow, 2023) -- three story collections and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He has been writing Wolverine for Marvel since 2017 and is known for his celebrated comics runs on Ghost Rider, X-Force, James Bond, Green Arrow, Nightwing and Teen Titans. His honors include the Whiting Award, a McKnight Fellowship, an NEA fellowship, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories.