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End Of Secrets (2014)

by Ryan Quinn(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Thomas & Mercer

review 1: I received this book through Net Galley. I found this a very enjoyable read. Fast paced and very well written. The topic is very current, cyber security and spying on the general public through our internet use. The story had elements of the Snowden/Wikileaks affair, there was a little bit of a Banksy type character, a bit of a Big Brother feeling and I felt it expands and brings the basis of the Fahrenheit 451 story to the future, using computers instead of books. The topic is so current, is pop culture the only culture that matters asks one of the main characters. We all should consider how true that is.Is the future a place where will be valued digitally? Will we be faced with privatized espionage? This book will really get you thinking about what's happening right now.... more Who is watching us, tracking our key strokes, watching us on cameras on the streets and more importantly, what are they going to do with that information? Have you figured it out, as the book says?
review 2: End of Secrets by Ryan Quin. An interesting premise involving the loss of privacy that has evolved through social media, CDC cameras, and cyber spying. Our personal information is out there. And there are ways to access it, both legal and illegal, for purposes we may or may not approve of.Kera Michaels is a CIA agent on a special assignment away from the "Company." Her task is to discover what has happened to a number of individuals, mostly artists, that have disappeared--leaving no digital footprint. Entertaining enough, the book does cover some of the risks of living in the digital age. (I read recently that anyone born after 1985 is a "digital immigrant," an interesting concept, and when one looks at children under six playing on their iPads--one that is easy to accept.)Somehow the book fails to become anything more than mildly entertaining. The concept deserves a more complex and detailed investigation, but the book falls short in that regard and remains a pretty typical suspense/mystery with fairly stereotypical characters.NetGalley/Amazon PublishingMystery/Suspense. Dec. 1, 2014. Print length: 400 pages. less

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