Kieran Shaw

Kieran learned how systems worked because he hated being locked out of them, and curiosity turned into obsession. By nineteen he had a name in hacker circles; by twenty someone he trusted had used what he found to save themselves, and it nearly cost him everything. At twenty-one he walked away from the black-hat world on his own, before it burned his life down, and went legitimate. Now he takes security contracts and hunts bugs through the night from a Capitol Hill apartment full of monitors and cables, lives alone by design, and still carries that dangerous edge. He wants to be known, but trusts almost no one enough to let it happen.