Two series. One reconstructs real intrusions from the outside in; the other is about getting into UK security and surviving its interviews. Written from nearly twenty years of doing the job, not from a course.
Volume One — Origins
From phone phreaks and teenage intruders to virus writers and most-wanted hackers, Origins is a narrative history of ten real cases that exposed the fragility of our digital world.
Volume Two — Going Pro
In February 2000, a fifteen-year-old in Montreal took down Amazon, Yahoo and eBay from his bedroom. In May, a Manila student released a worm that crashed forty-five million inboxes inside a day. In January 2003, three hundred and seventy-six bytes of code saturated the public internet in under ten minutes.
Volume Three — Going Geopolitical
The third volume, due in October 2026.
Volume Four — Going Strategic
The fourth volume, following in December 2026.
A Career Changer's Roadmap
Most cybersecurity career advice is written by Americans, for Americans, and reads like it. The UK market has its own employers, regulators, qualifications, salary structures and routes in. Generic American guides miss most of it; vendor blogs and bootcamp marketing miss the rest.
The Honest Guide
Cybersecurity interviews in the UK can feel opaque. Different formats, vague role descriptions, and advice that rarely reflects how interviews actually work here. This book pulls back the curtain.
A reference companion
A reference companion to the interview book: a substantial bank of UK-relevant cybersecurity interview questions organised by domain — SOC and threat detection, network security, GRC and compliance, cryptography, cloud security, architecture and behavioural — each paired with the kind of answer hiring managers actually expect.
Before cybersecurity, there were people.
The Hacker Chronicles · Volume OneOne list covers both shelves — the cyber books and the novels.
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