Porter can barely remember his parents, and when he does, it’s only in strange flashbacks.

Raised by strangers in the woods who came to be like a mum and dad, Porter learnt survival and bush skills and much more. But when a stranger arrives and dangles information about how and why his birth parents died, now 14-year-old Porter can’t help but follow them to New York.

He discovers the stranger is part of a National Security Agency called DOMAIN. Department of Machine and Artificial Intelligence.

What’s even more shocking is that he too is connected to this agency, and becomes even more so as he agrees to continue his parents work. This entails using him as a tool for National Intelligence.

Now constantly connected to the Spy Agency via his brain, Porter’s personal view of the world includes data he needs to carry out missions. He can also see separate screens across his vision including files he can open. He also hears the agency inside his mind, as they guide him in his actions. The files in his mind include everything from scaling buildings, speaking different languages, or playing the piano. All of which he can access at any moment.

In this new life in the city, he meets the wealthy and powerful and their children who are also teens in this high-technology world. But high tech brings high responsibility and high prices for control of it.

Porter has to not only navigate his new life, but the truth, lies and betrayal at every turn as he struggles to keep true to himself, his memories and his past.

DOMAIN is an action-packed tech thriller of a teen looking for answers, another planning revenge, and a government agency hiding the truth.

This story premise was sparked by Japanese Scientists who discovered in 2004, that the human body’s electrical field could be harnessed to transmit and receive data.

Told in third person, the reader travels with main character Porter to discover what happened to his past, and the truth about his future.

The story (mainly in the first quarter) is split between the present and Porter’s memories that come in flashbacks. The flashbacks are clearly signposted in a different font. Porter’s driving force is learning what really happened to his parents, and who is responsible. Along the way, he discovers a connection to them no one expects, let alone him or the reader.

DOMAIN is the sort of book which would make an excellent movie, with a sizzling ending that keeps readers glued to the page.

Author – Rohan Gavin

Age – 10+

Listen to the first 5 pages here 

Publisher – Allen & Unwin

Set in – New York / USA

Viewpoint – 3rd person

Orphan – Yes

Violence – Yes

Real Life – Yes

Fantasy – No

Blend – Technology / Life

(2025, Allen & Unwin, Real Life, Crime, Murder, Mystery, Revenge, Action, Betrayal, Lies, AI Technology, Government, New York, Spy, Spies, Computers, Hackers, Hacking, Mystery, Answers, WiFi, National Security, Memory, Memories, Science, Electricity)