Cell Phone

The United States government, in attempting to balance protection of American citizens with counter-intelligence technology to catch foreign information operations, has tasked a Defense contractor to come up with a cell phone that looks like those on the market-but with a difference. It must exceed the capacity of any other spyware and remain undetectable by foreign governments and their operators.

However, others know the technology is being developed. The team coming up with the technology is being surveilled...not just by their own company under contract to the Pentagon, but by a mysterious cabal whose allegiances are unknown. Personal relationships within the team, including a security-prohibited attraction between a beautiful team leader and a man she had met before when they were students at MIT, puts both the couple and their team at risk. When team members are systematically murdered, and a prototype stolen, the couple reveals their personal relationship while being put into government protection, determined to remain alive.

Will the couple find safety, and who is behind both the theft and the contractor murders? Asking questions about the capacity of governments to spy not just on one another, but potentially their own people, and the issues inherent in the risks of personal relationships in not just the workplace but in the world of high technology-especially when under contract to the Department of Defense-Cell Phone is a thriller depicting the inherent personal stakes of the high-tech world of counter-intelligence.