Review: Couldn't Put It Down
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2013
The cyber war theme creates a new niche for thriller writers. Cyberionage (A Mystery, Espionage, and Cyber War Thriller) fills the bill well. Though the tone of the prose comes off a bit mundane in the opening of the book, the story advances in many complex and highly plausible directions. Unlike other reviewers which felt the story to be far fetched, this reader thought the insidious use of the Millennium Bug to infiltrate computer systems world wide presented the first plausible explanation of that previously inexplicable problem. All of the headlines today talk about data collection on a massive scale by the US of A. It is highly probable that less wealthy governments have manipulated these systems to gain illicit benefit.That said, the pages spent explaining stochastic mathematics and generally statistical methodologies took up much too much of the narrative. The underlying love story intrigued and satisfied me in the ending. If anything, the up to the last second ending seemed unlikely, but certainly did not stop me reading. I was glued to the book to the end. A beta-reader or two might have corrected some of at least the glaring typos and missing words. More from this writer will certainly interest me.