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The Bell Ringers (2010)

by Henry Porter(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

080211931X (ISBN13: 9780802119315)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

review 1: This is one fantastic political thriller! It is as timely as today's news. It is about the growth of the "surveillance state" that has come to characterize western democracies in the past twenty years or so. From tracking cars with license plate scanners, to hacking personal e-mails, to identity theft, to CCTV in our cities, in our subways, at traffic intersections, in shopping malls to digital health records, municipal and national governments know a lot about us, and can easily learn more. This book takes these facts of modern life and asks what if a government in the name of national security were to use advanced data collection software to spy on its own citizens and use that information...but wait, isn't that what the Edward Snowden revelations are all about? Thi... mores book is set in Great Britain where these techniques have already been in place and the prime minister is about to take the final steps to insure absolute control. Can he be stopped? Read it and find out. This well written and carefully plotted novel will definitely make you think twice before you give any information to anyone in any format.
review 2: I listened to this one. The narration by John Lee was excellent.Set a few years in the future, this is the story of Kate Lockhart, who returns to England from several years in the US to find it transformed into a police state. Her old friend and lover has apparently been killed in a terrorist attack in Columbia.It's a realistic depiction of where technology and current trends are taking us. It's gone much further in the UK than in the US, but still pretty scary. less

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