THE DARK NET

David Chandler's forthright narration grounds this increasingly weird techno-horror story. His emphasis on its elegant metaphors and unsettling descriptions makes this a viscerally skin-crawling listening experience. No longer just a home for criminals, the dark net has become home to a viciously powerful force that is determined to infect the real world. It falls to a band of unlikely heroes, including a 12-year-old girl with high-tech ocular implants, an unconventional journalist, a retired evangelist, and an altruistic hacker to attack the darkness spreading across the globe. Chandler uses accents lightly but to good effect, creating a number of recognizable characters in the midst of a large multinational cast and helping to make the storylines of this complex plot chillingly clear. B.E.K. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2017]