Review: This review may accidentally infect your computer...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2013
The Mother of All Viruses is my type of book. Computer intelligence (not even just AI), viruses, hacking, social engineering, Russian and American agents, and all out pandemonium! Your head will be spinning by the time you get through it and find out exactly what is going on and how all the pieces fit together.There is a lot of computer talk in the book since it is all about computing speeds and the calculations they can do. The book is mainly about a university scientist that needs more computing power to prove her theory but she does not have the budget; things progress from that point in really interesting ways. The tech-talk might slow some people down, but most of it can be ignored and just glossed over as it is just for us computer nerds and doesn't really affect the plot. There are a few pacing issues and back-and-forths that aren't really necessary, and then there were parts that just breezed by way too quickly for what was happening, but the rest of the book makes up for it.A very well written story that is a great read, for nerd and regular people alike. There is a little bit of a sci-fi aspect mixed in too which might be a hinderance to some, and was really the only unbelieveable aspect of the entire book. You can get almost half the book for preview on Amazon and Goodreads, so there is no financial reason to not give it a look.