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In the final lines of his three-book series, author David Dean Morrow hopes readers will remember one thing: "It was always about what it costs us to be visible online." That cost, he argues, is not a stolen credit card number or a temporary freeze on an account. It is a 401k drained, a career destroyed, an identity erased — and the news cycle moves on before anyone checks on the human at the epicenter.

Morrow is the creator and host of Cyber Crime Junkies, and he spent five years writing the Moving Target trilogy, a set of nonfiction cybercrime narratives built around a single protagonist: Stevie Parker, a COO in Indianapolis who is neither a hacker nor a federal agent. The trilogy does not aim to teach technical exploits. It aims to show what cybercrime looks like from the inside of a normal life, and to give readers a framework for surviving it.

The framework: becoming a moving target

The central mechanism Morrow offers is not a piece of software or a firewall setting. It is a behavioral posture he calls "becoming a moving target." The idea is simple: if you make yourself predictable online, you are easy to hit. If you stay still — reusing passwords, oversharing on social media, ignoring basic operational security — the adversary will find you. The trilogy's three books walk through the stages of learning that lesson.