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The Ghost Tap: The Invisible Heist at America's Checkout Lines
Paperback
Series: Sunday Eleode
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9781066930258
Publisher: Sunday Eleode
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a world where your phone is your wallet, your identity, and your lifeline, a silent wave of crime is sweeping America.
Ghost Tapping: a sophisticated wireless exploit that drains bank accounts and steals identities the instant a victim holds their phone near a payment terminal. The criminals leave no fingerprints, no physical evidence, no trace. Law enforcement is overwhelmed. Banks quietly reimburse to avoid panic. The public remains dangerously unaware.
Maya Chen, a Pulitzer-finalist investigative journalist, has spent her career exposing the rot behind corporate façades. But when a Ghost Tap strikes at a Walmart checkout in suburban Virginia, she discovers the attack is not random. It is part of something vast: a decentralized criminal syndicate called The Conduit, operating in the shadows of America's digital infrastructure.
At its helm is Adrian Kessler, a disgraced Silicon Valley engineer who believes he is waging a righteous war against a corrupt financial system. But Kessler has a plan far more devastating than theft. He has discovered a flaw in the global NFC payment protocol, a Zero Day that could trigger a simultaneous worldwide Ghost Tap on Black Friday, draining billions in a single hour and crippling the global economy.
When The Conduit strikes Maya's own family, wiping her sister's savings and threatening her home, Maya must join forces with a burnt-out FBI agent and her legendary editor to infiltrate the network and stop the Zero Day, before America's checkout lines become the front lines of an invisible war.
A techno-thriller for the age of digital vulnerability, The Ghost Tap is a relentless, terrifying, and ultimately hopeful story about the cost of convenience and the price of truth.
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