TechnoThriller  Elite!
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Brett Arquette introduces a new twist on assassinations or terrorism in his masterpiece Operation Hail Storm.  The thriller centers around two characters who lost their loved ones in a terrorist attack and are on a mission  to eliminate the members of the FBI Most Wanted List.  The supporting cast includes orphans who are well trained in drone robotics and can perform amazing, yet very believable, feats.  The novel  has been deeply researched and reading it is like following a CNN non-stop emergency coverage.  Once you begin, you won't want to stop!
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The title says "action packed techno-thriller", and it is completely correct.  It was hard for me to put this book down and concentrate on actual work.  As a techno-geek, I thoroughly enjoyed the cyber side of the book.  This is one that will appeal also to fans of the new crop of religious thrillers.  Do yourself a favor and pick this one up.
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A thrill ride from begining to end! A must read! a great example of man versus the technology he has created.
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I just finished another good book, that I downloaded from Amazon for the Kindle app on my iPad. The book is Encrypted by Carolyn McCray.

You have a couple of world class hackers (Ronnie(female) and Quirk (male)) a FBI agent (Zach) and a secret society (The Hidden Hand) hell bent on cleansing the world or the unfaithful. The FBI agent is tracking the hackers when The Hidden Hand release an enhanced version of the Bubonic Plague on the world. Zach, Ronnie, Quirk and an odd cast helpers must work in finding the clues that will lead them to a huge supply of an antiserum for the plague. The book kept me wanting to read the next chapter. This was my first book my the author but I plan on acquiring some of her other works.
If you like suspense, techno thrillers then I suggest that you pick up this book.

This is the review that I put up on my blog at [...]
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Drug dealers are using force to put themselves up against the US authorities in a brilliant yarn often similar to Tom Clancy's CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and Stephen Coonts's UNDER SIEGE. It's up to Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle, who sets up the Border Security Force, armed with an assortment of high-tech weaponry, to stop them. The drug barons' arms suply provides a good degree of competition too! Mercenary fighter pilots, anti-ship missles, man-portable missile launchers all bought from Argentina after the Falklands War and ex-Cuban MiGs! The pace is like any othe Dale Brown book - fast, furious and relentless, the action never stops and everything technical is well explained. Another winner!
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Wow! *EDtv* on steroids! *Virtual Life* is a rocket-fast, prophetic story of a Google Glass app that lets everyone and anyone live-stream their lives. This is the highest calibre of technothriller. *Virtual Life* incorporates today's technology, with a view to the future of what smart glasses hold in store for us all. It presents a dark and totally arresting vision of our societal obsession with being seen: getting Views, Likes, Favorites, Commentsanything to be noticed and acknowledged, and to achieve a kind of immortality through the most intrusive kind of fame. I love Jeri's work, and with *Virtual Life* she's done it again. Highly recommended read!
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I've just experienced the advent of a brilliant new light in technology-based thrillers. Keith Ellis really knows his stuff, and in "Quantum Ethics" he spins a tale that immediately engulfs the reader in a world that, at first blush, exists in the far reaches of possibility -- until you realize that this could be happening right here, right now. John Thunder is a fascinating renaissance man: as comfortable in the woods and with today's (and tomorrow's) technology as he is in Washington's corridors of power and intrigue. He reminds me in some ways of a character from a long-ago thriller: a gentleman who can rise to the occasion at a moment's notice -- at once a fierce adversary and a trusted, caring friend. Ellis has tapped into real techno paranoia as world-shattering technology is up for grabs, and everybody wants to be its master. I couldn't put this one down, and I'm hoping the author will favor us with a sequel in the near future.
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What a page turner! I started reading it at 10 pm expecting to go to sleep in a few hours but ended up reading until 8 am the next morning. I had to put it down at the last two chapters as my eyelids were no longer being cooperative. I was thoroughly engrossed in this fast-paced techno-thriller story.

It's difficult to talk about the book without some minor spoilers so be warned! Potential spoilers ahead!

Mr Nachenberg's explanations of computer security are simple and would be easy for almost everyone to understand. They're certainly better than the ones I use to explain things to people. I guess being chief architect at Symantec and a professor at UCLA helps in that regard. As a software engineer myself, I felt right at home with this book. As the story unfolds, I find myself thinking that the plot device to enable worldwide disruption by the antagonists can actually happen. There's nothing about computer security in this book that cannot happen and you'd be hard pressed to find a security expert who will disagree. There is no one is using a Visual Basic GUI interface to get an IP address in this book! I did find the lack software quality assurance (the process of hunting for bugs and weaknesses in a program) on the part of the bad guys to be amusing, though.

In addition to allowing me to geek out at the technical aspects, the story presents emotion as well. Mr Nachenberg presents the antagonist as an utterly vile person who will torture and kill without hesitation. I hated that guy's guts. When tragedy strikes our hero, he shows remorse but realizes that he has to continue seeking help from others for the greater good.

My only complaints are two minor character holes. The fate of one of the characters is disclosed in a blanket statement about a group of engineers. The other guy was just forgotten somewhere.

Overall, I think this is a really fun book to read over a weekend or two. Highly recommended due to technical accuracy.
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Crichton does an excellent job of writing a heart-pounding high tech thriller!  This is a story of nano-technology gone out of control.  Those familiar with Ben Bova's tales (Venus, The Asteroid War series, etc.) would know the concept of nano or microscopic computer technology going in.  In both cases the potential is there for both good results and total disaster.  It is scary because science is probably trying very hard to perfect this technology and the way things seem to be designed today; the odds are greater for disaster than good.
In this novel, a man (Jack) out of work has to take care of his kids until he can find a new job while his wife starts putting in incredibly long hours.  His wife starts acting very strange (like a Stepford Wife), being very standoffish with her family and acting very "weird" around them.  She starts beating her baby when he starts crying and is constantly snapping at her kids.  She starts looking "younger" and leaner especially in the face.  Jack starts suspecting that she may be having an affair and when he discusses her behavior with a few people they tell him it is typical behavior of someone who is.
Jack seems to not want to face that possibility or maybe senses something else linked to the job.  Weird things start to happen like a mysterious black line that seems to engulf his wife and then disappear and then Jack sees what appears to be a young man in his wife's car with her who seems to vanish mysteriously.
Other strange things occur like Jack's baby gets a mysterious rash that engulfs his body.  Jack rushes him to the emergency room and the doctors are perplexed as the baby gets worse and worse.  Finally, they call for an MRI.  When the baby is put in there the MRI gets damaged and the baby is mysteriously better.  The doctors mentioned that the MRI has a strong magnetic field so the reader immediately suspects that the magnetism of the MRI destroyed whatever was harming the baby.  Being in the computer field, I know that magnets destroy computer components, so you can kind of guess what was affecting the baby.
When Jack's wife is injured in a car crash, Jack is asked to go back to work (at the same company she was at) and go to where his wife was working to solve a computer programming problem that is threatening to wreck a major project involving nano-technology the company is working on.  Jack goes to the facility in the desert to try to help.  When he gets there he finds that some of the people working there, like his wife, are acting very strange.  For some reason Jack never suspects the truth about them even when he sees evidence of duplicates of some of the people being made.
Crichton has written a riveting tale that I highly recommend.  The only drawback for me was that the first two pages of the book take place at the end of the story so you know that Jack and his co-worker (Mae) will survive throughout most of the "inescapable" perils of the book.  This took away some of the suspense of those scenes.
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Hello, An absolute blast to play. It'll run your computer into the ground! I really like fps but when it as frighting and bug free as this game has turned out to be all you'll be able to do is lock your self in the computer room and Rambo the hell out of this game! Best script so far. Smart AI and well thought out! Here is an example of a game strategy... Hack the anti-personnel 50cal in the Neptune corridor then hang proximity mines around the cannon then watch the A.I. send splicers to beat (Re-hack) the 50cal only to find the mines hanging from the walls like Christmas stockings. It'll rip'em a another one:o As for a capable computer I'd recommend additional VGA cooling and short duration play 1/2 hrs max. If I could recommend any game play improvements it would be while the splicer is suffering an electric blast and I switch to the shot gun at blank range I should get the satisfaction of rip'en them in half!(they never fragment).also The telekinesis ability to drop an object should be the rt 2 trigger buttons and not the trigger and restore hypo button. Almost every time my character will replenish the hypo rather than drop the object in telekinesis. Other than that quit your job and lock your self in your apt...I'm almost feeling sorry for the nasty splicers...Almost:)
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Ramthun's Ground Zero is a techno-thriller murder mystery that kept me turning the pages.  If Tom Clancy and Agatha Christie had written together, this is what would have resulted.  I loved the cutting edge technology that  makes me wonder if she endangered her security clearance, but I also love  the classic mystery of a real locked room, with the revelation that had me  making the traditional Christie head smack, saying, "I shoulda known!"  But  even better, I loved and cared about the people, from the not-so-geeky  computer programmers to the cops. The professional women are both fun, but  real, and could easily be my friends.  And finally, the story hangs  together, front to back, top to bottom.  Without a doubt, I think this is a  great read!
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I can pick up any of Dale Brown's techno thrillers and not be disappointed. His knowledge of military action is superb. His Dreamland series keeps you begging for more.
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I received this book as a free copy with the promise to review in February. It's not my type of book but I  was pleasantly surprised. With all the new technology today I thought it would be a little tough to follow. Everything was explained in the simplest terms possible and the story line is great. I will definitely read more in this series. Great techno-thriller!
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"Kill Decision" by Daniel Suarez further solidifies his status as the leading sci/fi techno-thriller author writing today. IMHO this is his best, most riveting, story to-date. Just wait until you meet Odin...who is a perfect melding of Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, and Scot Horvath. Odin is an erudite, commanding, patriotic, heroic, and indefatigable, warrior. The pacing is exhilarating, the storyline immersive, the backdrops so real you will think you are there. Suarez's technical expertise, and combat experience, place him at the top of the list. I hope we will get to read more stories with him as the leading protagonist defending American ideals. This is a must read for aficionados of the genre, it's an extraordinary, well written story that will leave you cheering!!! 5 stars!!!!!
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Like Mark's previous novel, Zero Day, this one is fast paced and engaging. He skillfully leverages his knowledge to ensure that the scenarios are realistic and believeable. If you like techno-trillers, you will love this one!
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What a great introduction into the mind of HGW for me! I am always looking for great, new authors and Holy Ghost Writer has truly met my mark. This two book bundle follows the exploits of Zaydee who is the genius founder of the ground-breaking Bitcoin. (I always thought the guy was Japanese because of the satoshi thing). She is a strong, powerful, charismatic, and uber-cool protaganist who makes the story line really work. This is a great techno-thriller and has enough plot twists to keep you on your toes as you follow the fast-paced action. I don't want to give anything away, but having read these two excellent books, I'm off to find more literary works from HGW.
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Excellent techno-thriller from a new author. The first bit was slow but the pace soon picked up and kept speeding. I couldn't put the book down. I like techno-thrillers and this fits the bill. It has realistic technology. Drones are now.  Political and battle tactics savvy. Readers of David Weber would enjoy it. I look forward to reading the next Hail book.