Greek / Cyprus
Epicheirēsē Logos. To mystērio tu kinētu
(Operation Logos. The mobile phone mystery)
Panau, Petros
(Panaou, Petros)
(text)
Leukōsia: Teleia, 2022. – 222 p.
ISBN 978-9925-551-54-5
Technology | Manipulation | Corruption | Political intrigue
Reading age: 12+
White Ravens issue: 2023
Fifteen-year-old Renos is growing up in a world dominated by crises. And being an introvert doesn’t help to make his life easier. Renos prefers writing to speaking, and he is a bookworm. One day in the public library he discovers something in an old book by a professor that turns his life and that of others upside down. Hidden in the book is a device resembling a mobile phone, with the name Logos, or Speech. He succeeds in unlocking Logos and discovers that by entering texts, he is able to influence the speech of others. This turns out to be quite useful in his daily life. But Renos is not the only one who knows about Logos. Soon he is blackmailed by people in the secret service who want to use Logos to manipulate an election and thus help a dangerous politician win. Renos and his friends decide to act. Petros Panaou shows in this gripping and cinematically told novel, how community spirit and decisive political action can protect democracy and human rights from every kind of corruption and technology-based propaganda. [TA]