While investigating a fault plaguing the newest model of smartphone, stressed technician Simon Parfitt makes a disturbing discovery. Incubating inside the batteries are spider-like creatures, and the phenomenon seems to be spreading. But when he tries to alert the authorities, it becomes clear that someone - or something - wants him dead. As paranoia sets in, Simon is reluctantly recruited in the fight against an enemy that is forever several steps ahead. People become pawns, friends become foes, and civilisation starts to crumble.

Something has come among us. Agent Damian Raven has a personality disorder that makes him hard to work with. Together with his new partner, Tasmin Popescu, he works at the forefront of a United Nations taskforce, charged with protecting the world from unconstrained technologies. But when a phone technician in London discovers creatures incubating in smartphone batteries, and a solipsistic scientist in the Gobi desert finds her colleagues working on an unauthorized and disturbing project, Raven and Popescu find themselves facing an enemy for which they could never prepare. Racing around the globe, they must stop this foe and save those who have become its pawns - before it cripples civilization completely, and leaves us broken in its wake.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking, held in Paris, France, in June 2017. The 17 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They discuss new trends in networking infrastructures, security, services and applications while focusing on virtualization and cloud computing, network programming, software defined networks (SDN) and their security.

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