The Tempus Project

Antony Johnston

The second Brigitte Sharp thriller

‘One of the best techno-thrillers I’ve read for a very long time’ MW Craven

In The Exphoria Code, MI6 officer and elite hacker Brigitte Sharp foiled a terror attack on London that used stolen military drone software to deliver a ‘dirty bomb’.

Now Bridge is back, battling a series of hacks and ransom-ware attacks, masterminded by a hacker known only as ‘Tempus’, who is targeting politicians and government officials with impunity.

Discovering that this campaign is linked to a cyber-attack on the London G20 summit, she is drawn into the dark-web world of crypto-currencies, Russian hackers and an African rebel militia.

In another compelling cyber-thriller from the creator of Atomic Blonde, Bridge races against time to prevent a disaster that could alter the balance of global power forever.

‘Johnston manages to make the world of “runtime executables” and “rootkits” thrilling — no mean feat — while also featuring car chases and old-fashioned mole-hunts on the streets of Tallinn’ The Times

‘Once again Antony Johnston shows his casual mastery of the thriller idiom. Brigitte Sharp is the most effective female espionage agent in fiction since Modesty Blaise’ Barry Forshaw

‘A breathless cat-and-mouse dance of shadowy operatives with mixed loyalties set against an evocative European background...delivers countless thrills and suspensions of the heartbeat’ Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time

‘Johnston has cracked the code on how to make a keyboard warrior into an exciting spy... Bridge is the hacker hero we didn’t know we needed’ Spywrite

Paperback: 400pp

Published: Lightning (May 2020)

ISBN: 9781785631795