Review: A Top Notch Thriller Wrapped In Science Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
First thing let me make sure any reader understand that this book is a thriller with a "whodunit" subplot.  The premise is wrapped into a science fiction scenario that adds a bit of "save the world" to the plot.While most of what we see after the first few chapters are centered around Tom those initial glimpses into what the horrible results of the experiments with the Collider might be doing serve to draw the reader into the story in a more personal manner than reading a newspaper article about a disaster, well done.So we have a murder mystery wrapped up in a scientific conspiracy with a few personal moments thrown in to relieve the tension and add some depth to the story.  While this is not a exceptionally long book at approximately 300 pages there is no feeling of lack of detail.  The story while in a completely different setting kept reminding me of The Andromeda Strain in its slowly escalating level of intrigue although the injection in various places of references to the Indian god Shiva kept things interesting also even though there were subtle hints throughout the book to certain things if you looked for them.I think the thing here to give future readers is that if you liked something like The Andromeda Strain, you will enjoy this novel although I was not sure if the last page in the book was alluding to a sequel or something much darker.