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Review excerpts for John's books
  • If you enjoy hacker thrillers, check out John's debut novel, Identified.

    – Daniel Suarez, author of Daemon

  • This is a true technological thriller. A crack team doing a more realistic mission impossible, complete with real consequences, massively researched Russian locales …

    – Bradley Horner

  • Fantastic book! I enjoyed it from cover to cover. I will be recommending this book to everyone on my social media accounts.

    – Joseph Bruce

  • This was a good book! It makes you think and it seems like these hacking scenarios could actually happen, since there is so much unknown with computers.

    – Megan Davan

  • This digital age thriller was tense and very well written, probably more so than the first book because I could connect a little more to West and his fight.

    – Heather Stewart

  • What impressed me the most is all facts can happen in real life! All the hacks, the government decisions, the behaviours of the heroes of the book …

    – Carette Antonin

  • Fabulous book!! I want more!! Excellent story, plots within plots, technically sound regarding the hacking, great character development, exciting pacing …

    – L. J. Erste

  • Fast-paced, great characters, and grapples with technology and society issues that are near-and-dear to hackers and will make any reader think.

    – Dan Cornell

  • This was a really fun read in the vein of Hackers, Sneakers, the Net, and other great hacking movies. I loved the characters. The stakes felt real.

    – John Wilker

  • Do you love Tom Clancy, submarines and Russian espionage? How about Artificial Intelligence, undersea cables and foreign attacks on the global internet?

    – Kirk

  • It's a page turner. The suspense, the romance, the stage for the security-privacy near future plot make this a quick and delightful read.

    – Adam Baso

  • If you enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, Homeland and Attack Surface, this book will feel just right, and fits in with their dystopian surveillance nightmare.

    – KJ

  • Identified reveals the near future, in which the government surveillance apparatus, as revealed to us by Snowden, has grown immeasurably powerful.

    – Ryan G

  • The story is great, the main characters are memorable, and the ending was satisfying.

    – Mark Papadakis

  • I love the realistic but futuristic use of technology and how everything feels 10 years ahead of where we are.

    – Dale

  • More technically accurate than a typical hacker book.

    – Adriana Porter Felt

  • A caper for computer geeks.

    – Eric Lawrence

Hacker fiction by John Wilander, in reading order. Pick a book to read more and to find where to buy it.

The West William Wilder series

  1. Cover of Identified, a hacker thriller by John Wilander. Book 1 Identified
  2. Cover of Submerged, a hacker thriller by John Wilander. Book 2 Submerged
  3. Placeholder cover for Yield, the title in large dark letters over a pale green island shape on a gray background. Book 3 Yield Coming soon

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