Review: Haven't finished it yet.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2014
Ok, if you're going to use the term faraday cage in a book, you need to talk to a ham radio operator or RF engineer first. Because a working faraday cage will 1) need to completely enclose the source of the signal you want to conceal, including the floor; and 2) completely block the wifi you're trying to use for skype. So when you say 'I enclosed us in a faraday cage and then placed a call' you either need to insert 'on a landline' at the end or admit you've got no clue what you're writing about.In this case, the author should have discussed encryption with a computer geek instead of going for the visually flashy faraday cage option. There are plenty of good encryption options out there in the world. The best would be to have them cary a set of one-time pads, or use a book cypher based on google books or kindle or something. Second best is just pretend it's magic that your hacker buddy gave you and click on an app to encrypt or plug in a chip or whatever.Also, I'm starting to think the main character is kind of a jerk with an attitude problem. Anger issues or not, he can be kind of abrassive. Oh, the world is out to get you, nobody respects you, you keep having to prove yoursself over and over, only your hot hot girlfriend understands you, wah, wah, wah. He sounds like a mopey emo kid. He's in his 20's though, so maybe it's just being true to his real age: other people problems are nowhere near as real as his own problems.I keep waiting for this series to get back to being as cool as it was at the start of book 1.