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The Blue Screen: Cybercrime: Eleven Stories of Suspense (in the Sidney Sheldon tradition)

The Blue Screen: Cybercrime: Eleven Stories of Suspense (in the Sidney Sheldon tradition)

Palwe, Manoj

Paperback

Series: Series 3 - Smart Career & Money Guide for Global Indians

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798199007009
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
About this book

You answer the phone, and a police officer in full uniform appears on your screen and tells you that you are under arrest. You meet someone online who, week by week, becomes the person who finally understands you. An app shows your savings growing in beautiful green numbers every single day. None of these crimes breaks down a door - each one wears the face of something you have been trained your whole life to trust, and asks you, in effect, to rob yourself. India-anchored and global in reach, these eleven stories follow the women at the edge of the institutions where the wrong first becomes visible - a bank's elderly-customer desk, a telecom fraud line, a hospital's records, a newsroom, a crypto exchange, a cybercrime helpline. A relationship manager who knows that no real authority arrests a person through a screen. A teacher who knows that a number on an app is a claim, not a fact. A verification editor working at the moment that seeing stopped being believing. None of them defeats the network, and none resolves anything with violence; they resolve it with attention, by reading the one thing the borrowed legitimacy cannot fake. These stories will not teach you how to commit a crime - they will teach you how such crimes feel, and what it costs to see them clearly. Suspense in the tradition of great thrillers, where the wrong hides not in darkness but inside the legitimate-seeming, inside the systems and the trust we are trained to obey.

From the Author: The game is gone; the watchfulness remains. I wanted to bring the same insiders - the women who notice the one thing that doesn't belong - to the crimes of the screen we now all live beside. - Manoj Palwe

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