Phreaks - Matthew Derby

Matthew Derby

Category: Full Cast

Narrator: Ben McKenzie

Tags: Full Cast, Autobiography & Biographies, Historical Fiction

The year is 1970. Emma Gable, a blind teenager coming of age in a small industrial town in Western New York, is about as far from the seismic cultural transformations rocking campuses and city streets across America as a person can get. Emma escapes the chaos of her dysfunctional family by dialing up random numbers on the phone in her bedroom, just to see wholl answer., But when a fateful call connects her to a mysterious band of proto-hackers calling themselves Phone Phreaks, the revolution comes home, changing Emmas life for good. Because Bell Telephone, the worlds biggest corporation, is not amused that a handful of teenagers suddenly have the power to seize control of its vast and lucrative network and bend it to their will., Bringing down the Phreaks is the corporate goliaths number one priority, but for Bell Security Agent Bill Connolly, the crusade becomes personal as he struggles to outwit and outmaneuver an adversary that seems always one step ahead of him., Phreaks is the sto