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Surveillance (2010)

by Aaron Pogue(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Masked Fox Publishing

series

Ghost Targets

review 1: This holds the distinction of being the first book I ever read on my Kindle. But enough about me.Basic plot (spoiler free!): Katie Pratt is a recently hired FBI Agent, and newest members of a unit called Ghost Targets. In the futuristic world the author creates, a super-advanced surveillance system called Hathor watches the entire world. Originally designed to just function as something not so different from our favorite apps on our smartphones today, within years it became so good at watching everyone on the planet, that it could basically stop all crime, or at least make it impossible to get away with. As a result, traditional police work becomes an anachronism. The only exception, of course, is Ghost Targets. They seek out people that have found a way to avoid being tra... morecked by Hathor, who are called ghosts.A random secretary in Little Rock, Arkansas, is murdered, and Katie is assigned the case as a rookie, while the rest of her her squad is working frantically to prevent a possible assassination attempt on the president. But something is wrong with Hathor. In fact, something is wrong about the entire case...This book is a very interesting and well-written blend of realistic sci-fi, and murder mystery. The characters are believable, and act like real people. The plotting is tight, and it's a brisk read.But it's not perfect. In fact, it does have one failing not uncommon to sci-fi: the specifics of the workings of the Hathor system dominate a good chunk of the novel's dialogue and plot. It's a very, very cool concept for a system that could actually happen in the future, but to properly convey the specifics of it and to help readers understand it, the story itself (which is quite good, don't get me wrong) is forced to take a back seat at times.The mystery part of the book is top notch, and the sci-fi is also good. It's just that the specifics of the technology forced parts of the book to sound like a lecture on how the stuff actually works. I expect in the future installments that this will become less of an issue, as the readers understand it coming in, and the author will have the luxury of cutting straight to the good stuff.But there is no questioning the author's skill, and I look forward to checking out more of his work.
review 2: The beginning is a bit slow and the only reason I understand most of the technical jargon because my husband is in software development. However, the characters drive the plot forward, and by at least a quarter of a way through the book, I was devouring every page to find out what happened next. It is really well written, and his setting is definitely plausible. I can see his future becoming our future very soon. All in all, great read! less

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