The Secret Life Audiobook by Andrew O'Hagan
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Title: The Secret Life Subtitle: Three True Stories of the Digital Age Author: Andrew O'Hagan Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 10-10-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary: The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL - "in real life" - now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. "Ghosting" introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen - and unforgettable - consequences. "The Invention of Ronnie Pinn" finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web's darkest realms. And "The Satoshi Affair" chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto - and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.

Members Reviews: Fascinating A fascinating account of the chaotic attempt by Julian Assange to write his autobiography. We are in the period before Julian took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy but nevertheless was forced to wear an electronic tag and sign in each day at the local police station while he fought extradition to Sweden on rape allegations. His ghost writer, Andrew O'Hagan, put together a 70,000 word draft compiled from his visits and interviews with the WikiLeaks entrepreneur despite Julian's constant procrastination over many months and finally refusals to let it go, so that the publishers demanded the return of the $2.5 million advance. In that absence, Canongate Books put the book out as an unauthorised biography. This version, the story of how the book was written, gives us those torturous months that O'Hagan struggled to get it written and ends with visits to the Ecuadorian embassy - a nation not famous for its respect for freedom of speech - where Assange was holed up and isolated, most his 'friends' and fans having abandoned him. And no wonder. The supposed champion of free speech about everyone else except himself, Assange comes across as an unreliable and narcissistic man who has no social graces, eats like a pig and repeatedly turns against those trying to help him. This is not a biography but still its pages reveal the founder of WikiLeaks unfettered and paranoid. The rest of this book about two other secret lives are equally fascinating and I recommend it. Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa