About the Author

Charles O'Donnell writes thrillers with high-tech themes in international and futuristic settings. His works include THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (Matt Bugatti #1), an espionage thriller; MOMENT OF CONCEPTION (Matt Bugatti #2), a political and medical thriller; and the SHREDDED trilogy, SHREDDED, SHADE, and UNIVIRTUAL, a cautionary tale about the potential for technology to either augment reality or to replace it entirely, and the erosion of privacy in a world in which everything is shared online, and nobody reads the terms and conditions.Charles's short stories have also appeared in a number of literary journals, including the Dark Ink Press Fall 2018 Anthology, Dreamer's Creative Writing Year 1 Anthology, Carcosa Magazine, and the Esthetic Apostle, among others.Charles lives with Helen, his wife and life partner in Westerville, Ohio.

Reviews

★★★★★ "With a splash of Orwellian dystopia and a frighteningly timely plot, Shredded...challenges the creature comforts we have come to love in our newly digitized world, and poses a terrifying question: What if privacy could be completely erased? In the not-so-distant future, the safety of anonymity has been eliminated, thanks to the introduction of the Worldstream, the near-perfect catalogue of every life and event available through the Internet of Things. Essentially, the Worldstream is social media, Big Brother and live-streaming all rolled into one, making anyone's most intimate details vulnerable to invasion...O'Donnell has the mind of an engineer, but the storytelling skills of a veteran writer. Driving these types of issues into the public eye, in the confines of an unpredictable and well-crafted plot, makes this book stand out, and ensure that it is hard to forget." - John Staughton, Self-Publishing Review