Has today’s technology advanced to the point that the line between the real and cyber worlds has vanished? If so, will this unchecked digital landscape provide new social predators with opportu cities, big businesses, air traffic, and even emergency systems hostage to terrifying digital ransom demands.
Has today’s technology advanced to the point that the line between the real and cyber worlds has vanished? If so, will this unchecked digital landscape provide new social predators with opportunities to unleash terror and pain on unsuspecting victims, while avoiding detection from anywhere in the world? How does anyone find the culprits holding international cities, big businesses, air traffic, and even emergency systems hostage to terrifying digital ransom demands
Julie and Juan’s cyber assassin technology services team are immersed in these outrageous cyber-crime events occurring at multiple locations around the world. The CATS team is the next generation of hunters in the find and fix contest of cyber warfare, unlike any seen to date. How will they prove that the of 21st century video game playing has evolved beyond the that simple after-school distraction for children? With Supercomputers, the adage ‘bigger toys for bigger boys’ takes on a whole new definition. These Gamers may be after far more than just points.
George, Ty, Ernesto, Mercedes, EZ, and even Juan—travel to and investigate their respective assignments where they find they are undermined by organization’s leadership unwilling to listen to reason, playing the part of victim. Tampering with automated processes, driven by today’s explosion of technology use, is only the beginning of the competitive nature of these players. Cyber bad guys always think they can’t be caught or stopped.
Award-winning authors, Breakfield and Burkey, take their fans into this grittier story of The Enigma Series to explore virtual hacking within our technology dependent world. Book 7 of the series, The Enigma Gamers, A CATS Tale, is focused on misguided technology using Julie and Juan’s talented and tenacious team of professionals committed to finding and punishing evil achievers in every corner of the real and virtual worlds.
You may find yourself trying to rewrite the ending to match how you see the world, or how it should be.
Award-winning authors, Breakfield and Burkey, take their fans into this grittier story of The Enigma series to explore virtual hacking within our technology dependent world. In book 7 of the series, *The Enigma Gamers*,
The CATS Team, led by Julie and Juan, is committed to avenging and administering justice to evil doers in every corner of the real and virtual worlds.
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1. What was your hardest scene to write?
Throughout the series, Breakfield and Burkey
have several complex scenes which can take longer to come together. When a
complex scene doesn’t fit it may take several back and forth exchanges between
us to get it right.
We outline our stories in advance and have the
overall direction we wish to take the story. All of the characters which
contribute to the story, or all the locations, or even all the barriers to the
goals are not in place before we write. These elements of the story unfold as
the chapters are written and characters decide what they want to do. This is why for us a key element of putting a
story together involves literary ping pong where we share the story back and
forth until it has the right balance.
In The Enigma Always we had a chapter which
was created really early in the story’s writing but had no place in the outline
of where we thought it might go. It was moved, as we recall, at least 20 times
before it was placed in the right area of the story. Yet it provides a lesson
learned element for one of our favorite returning characters, Petra. Your
followers can certainly let us know when they listen or read that portion and
provide feedback on the placement of that chapter.
2. Do you Google yourself?
Sometimes following a marketing campaign or a
book tour, we will Google our names or the book targeted in the effort to see
if we are visible sooner. Not often though as we are so busy trying to complete
our tasks or write the next chapter.
Google and other elements of the Internet are
a unending sea of Big Data. The various algorithms Bots used by all the vendor
tools are updated and refined continually. We believe that Big Data and machine
learning to allow better automation may be directing more than just our buying
choices as we move forward. Toward that end Breakfield and Burkey are exploring
some of the technology landmines we may be creating for ourselves with
technology adaptation in the next story of the series with our working title,
The Enigma A.I. Wars.
Technology is moving so fast and adopted by
people across industries in differing ways. The results can vary as much as the
people using it. It is an exciting time with endless possibilities but also a
terrifying time with unwanted consequences. The question becomes how much
control in choice will each of us have in the near future.
3. What one thing would you give up to become a
better writer?
This part of the problem of balancing a
professional technology career with storytelling. Each of these activities
actually feed the other to one degree or another. At this point Breakfield and
Burkey just want it all!
Okay, one exception if the series was pick up
for a serious movie deal and we were required to be a part of the production, traveling
all over the world, and meeting people, Breakfield and Burkey agree to give up
their regular professional careers.
4. What are your favorite literary journals?
We
tend to like Fortune magazine for the financial and economics of the planet and
Dark Reading for the newest technical exploit being used by the cyber bad
guys. Webinars are also big and
important sources of new technology being served up. This helps build the literary soup we draw
from when building our stories.
We
have been following digital magazines that highlight books and reviews in the
various media. Kirkus Reviews (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/) are available on all our stories and The
Enigma Source was recently featured in the yearend magazine distributed to
libraries, agents, publishers, and others interested in recent books. Audiobook Reviewers (https://audiobookreviewer.com/) has reviewed our audio books and we have
been awarded multiple 5-star reviews and the ABR Choice Award. InD’tale
Magazine (https://www.indtale.com/) another source we look at for capturing new
book reviews has review several of our audiobooks and eBooks awarding us
Crowned Heart status and even a RONE Finalist for The Enigma Factor audio
book. These are great sources to check
out current releases or see what books have historically rate high with
established reviewers.
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Emma Barton is drowning. A single mother of a son with a genius-level IQ and Autism, she’s given up on love to focus on the child who needs her. Her writing aspirations—the only dream she hasn’t abandoned—withers as her latest novel bombs, and she’s dropped by her publisher.
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