Voyeur.exe

By: Mike DeFrench

Narrated by: Edward J Jorgenson

When sixteen-year-old Sui Nihl found a program that allowed him to hack into any phone or computer on the planet, he decided to use it to expose all of the corruption and evil in the world. It didn’t take long for him to become the world’s most infamous hacking vigilante.

During the day he goes to school and masquerades as a normal teenager. He deals with teachers and bullies, joins the school play, and attempts to awkwardly flirt with his crush. But at night his quest to expose evil soon turns into an obsession. Corrupt politicians, secret societies, human trafficking rings, everyone is a target. Pretty soon every intelligence agency in the world is looking for him.

That’s when the paranoia starts.

The stakes sky-rocket and one wrong move could mean the end. Regardless of the consequences, Sui is determined to fix the broken world around him. No one else would be willing to make the sacrifices like him… but he needs to make sure the power doesn’t go to his head.

©2019 Mike DeFrench (P)2022 Mike DeFrench

great

brilliant, twisty, exciting. Will listen again. 1984 meets everythings eventual. Intense and intriguing, must listen.

♥️♠️♣️♦️

Thank you for your childhood, Mr. DeFrench.

- Ace Michael St. Jean-Montez

(Mon. Feb. 26th 2024)

Original!

This was a really cool concept. I love the premise of this story and the way it unfilded, as the actions of the protagonist are things pretty much everyone would consider in that scenario. Definitely checking out more from DeFrench

Death Note + Person of Interest

This is the first book I’ve read written by someone I found on TikTok, and what a great start to the #writertok community!
Sui grows from a “literally me” Everyman to a narcissist with delusions of grandeur, and the transformation is as much fun to read as it is terrifying in places.
And since the book is almost exclusively fixed on this transformation, I was as captivated by it as I was with Death Note’s Light Yagami.
And like Light, Sui eventually faces the consequences for his actions, which was a good place to end.
My biggest issue, though, was the lack of a consistent, present threat, apart from Sui’s own anxiety. The antagonists, particularly the detective and the psychologist, feel like they dip in and out of the story because they don’t actively obstruct him. No one does, except Ian, who only does it near the end of the book.
But I really can’t complain too much because, like I said, I enjoyed it a lot.