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Deep State (2000)

by Walter Jon Williams(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Science Fiction

series

Dagmar

review 1: Great, suspenseful story starring Dagmar Shaw. She sees herself as the helpless Bond girl who dies in the first half of the film. Although she is amazingly talented at manipulating information and mobilizing the Group Mind to solve personal puzzles, she finds herself over her head over and over again. This time, she gets hired to "astroturf" Turkey after a military junta takes over the country; making it look like the revolution is grassroots, spontaneous action and showing how antiquated the generals in charge are. Of course, not everything goes to plan. How do you support a modern revolution when the government can turn off your internet/cell service? With DOS, of course :)
review 2: The book was a passable espionage book, but I feel like it lost something fr... moreom the previous incarnation. The draw of that book was the unique properties of the ARG and how they were used to help in real world events. It seems like this book was going the other way; turning real world events into an ARG, and I don't believe it worked as well. There is a long period in the book where the purpose of Dagmar and her team being involved in the central effort of the story is very unclear, and even when things come to a head there's not much that they seem to be doing. less

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