Dan Spielman

After a fatal road accident in the Australian outback, digital journalist Ned Banks gets a major scoop by securing cell-phone footage of the crash. When Ned's brother, computer hacker Jesse, discovers that the truck involved was owned by a secretive government research facility, it signals a conspiracy.

As Ned uncovers more of the conspiracy with help from Sophie and Alex, Jesse grows ever closer to cracking the code on the Physanto files. When Hani refuses to cooperate with the cybersecurity unit, the government threatens to deport her immigrant family.

Accused of hacking into Physanto's database and stealing classified files, Jesse is being held captive by the cybersecurity unit and tortured. Meanwhile, Ned ventures to the remote town of Lindara, where he gains startling new insights about the case.

Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....

Two Canberra-based brothers become entangled in a cover-up that involves a remote outback community and key members of the Australian government.

When the mutilated corpse of a young gay man is found in a smart Bondi Beach apartment, Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned the case. Is this brutal murder a domestic disturbance, a robbery gone wrong, or a gay hate crime? With mounting evidence to suggest the perpetrator has killed before, they start digging through old investigations and the discovery is shocking. They uncover up to 80 possible murders of gay men in New South...