The book displays a balanced distribution of tech talk and a healthy sense of humor as it tells Mitnick's almost unbelievable life story. Like his idol Harry Houdini, whose real name (Eric Weizs) he uses as a false identity, Mitnick demonstrates escape artistry in the virtual realm as well. Marshalls and Secret Service hot on his trail. Mitnick is fascinated by magic and shows his skills as an escape artist by pulling off a two-and-a-half-year disappearing act that kept the F.B.I., U.S.

Intrigued by the amazing account of his life as America's most wanted hacker, I ventured away from my usual mystery-solving to explore a former hacker's adventure story. I first heard about Ghost in the Wires approximately three weeks prior to its release, while listening to a radio interview with author Kevin Mitnick, who phoned in from Spain. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

Ghost in the Wires by Kevin D. Mitnick