S. A. Black Books
S. A. Black is a veteran leader in the advertising industry. Target Pool is their first novel.
When ad exec Diana Lane scores a hot new sales lead, it seems like her string of bad luck has come to an end. But the new ad campaign exhibits odd behavior, prompting Lane to suspect it's linked to a recent assassination attempt by political extremists. As she investigates whether the client's ads are being used to distribute surveillance software, Diana is torn between looking the other way for an easy payout and risking her own life by trying to uncover the truth.
In this debut novel by a real advertising technology exec, the mechanics of the surveillance economy are laid bare. Inspired in part by real life events and actual technology vulnerabilities, Target Pool examines how advertising exists in a grey area between necessary — and necessary evil.