New Book Klaxon!
In “The Web Beneath the Waves,” I travel from remote Pacific islands to secretive cable-laying operations to reveal the astonishing world of undersea infrastructure. I reveal the fate of Tonga after a volcanic eruption severs its only undersea link to the Internet, meet the men and women engaged in the fiendishly complex work of laying submarine cables, and track the acts of “grey zone warfare” in which ghost ships cut the cables of other countries. It’s a techno-thriller in all but name. Pre-order here!
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