Books by Rose Sandy

Encrypted. Stolen, RansomA hi-tech encrypted device, with a list of codes detailing far-future technologies, goes missing from the NSA's vault of secrets.When the British prime minister's private accounts are hacked, museum curator-turned-cyber-defense agent Calla Cress is called on to decrypt a mysterious cipher left in the prime minister's home. Soon a series of encrypted ciphers surfaces on a darknet site, the Vault, whose inception is steeped in the mysterious history of the Maltese Knights. As Calla gets closer to not only unearthing the Vault's interlaced web of secrets but also discovering the identities of the darknet masters, she learns that technologies aren't the only thing the darknet intends to auction.Calla has no idea how far the quest will plunge her and NSA agent, Nash Shields, into the past, and how much preventing a cyber war will hold the world ransom at a price much higher than she's willing to pay.In a fast-paced, cyber-espionage, technothriller from the streets of London to the coves of Malta, from the glitzy allure of Monte Carlo to Spain's royal complex of the Alhambra fortress, Calla must end the sale of the NSA list, but with every attempt at annihilating the digital auctions, she risks exposing her dearest secret.The Decrypter: Digital Eyes Only is Book 3 in the Calla Cress Technothriller Series, but can be read as a stand-alone story.

A group of international scientists is sent to an abandoned island to investigate a mysterious technology, only to face a terrifying discovery that defies imagination. Calla Cress finds herself in the middle of her most puzzling case.

A cyber crime will rewrite history… Only she can stop it.Calla Cress took down the world's most dangerous man. She made one mistake. She let him live.A billionaire behind bars, once the secret service's most brilliant code breaker, is luring the world's smartest minds into his prison cell. They leave in a coma and seconds later a lethal hack snakes through one government system after another.Meanwhile, Calla Cress, museum curator turned undercover cyber-security agent, faces the biggest dilemma of her life. She's harboring a dangerous secret buried in the deepest vaults of technology history.In a few hours, she'll have to make a decision that will change her life forever. After an explosion rocks her hideout in Colorado, Calla wakes up halfway across the world at the whim of a powerful, unidentified organization demanding she produces the whereabouts of a missing MI6 agent who can disarm the billionaire's hacks. Powerful people are prepared to kill to obtain the cryptic secret the agent kept.There're a few obstacles: Calla has never met the agent who has been missing for 30 years. Can Calla find the only person who ever challenged the enigmatic billionaire?With only a handful of clues left in a mysterious sixteenth-century anagram encrypted with a sequence of codes, Calla, NSA security advisor, Nash Shields and tech entrepreneur Jack Kleve are thrust in a dangerous race across the globe. With each haunting revelation, they soon realize the key to disarming the hacks comes at an astonishing price.The Decrypter and the Mind Hacker is a fast-paced, suspense thriller, charging through government secrets, world history and computer fraud that will have you wondering whether technology has progressed beyond human intelligence, changing civilization, and perhaps human nature.