TY - BOOK AU - McNab, Andy, TI - Shadow state SN - 9781802796261 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2023///. CY - London : PB - Welbeck, KW - Pike, Nathan, KW - Computer hackers KW - Fiction KW - Computer security KW - Cryptographers KW - Special forces (Military science) KW - Robbery KW - Computer scientists KW - Spy stories KW - Cryptocurrencies KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - Theft KW - UK & IRL thriller / suspense fiction KW - UK & IRL adventure fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft N2 - From the central bank of El Salvador to a tantalum mine in Rwanda, the Acropolis Museum in Athens to the world's biggest freeport on the planet in Dubai, enter a world ruled by ones and zeroes and inhabited by people who don't believe in trust. Nathan Pike is one of those people. To some he's a digital Robin Hood. To others he's nothing but an amoral hacker. A codebreaking and encryption expert, he sells his skills to whoever can pay him want he wants or give domething he needs. And when he's sprung from a Cambodian prison by a woman calling herself Melody Jones, he's made an offer the likes of which he's never seen before ER -