Within the e-book following The Wilkes Rebel, Bach reveals the reader what goes on behind your again on-line, what the media doesn’t let you know, and what will get distorted on social media.
Distinction
In The Wilkes Rebel I struggled. The subject was too shut for consolation. This one is just too. Bach weaved into his story the January 6 Rebel and different present occasions.
The distinction is that this time, the characters’ interactions, relationships, and human weaknesses are higher described. We additionally see characters from the earlier e-book returning.
The Story
The story begins on January 3, 2023. We’re in San Mateo, San Francisco, California, the place Phoenix Humboldt goes to Aragon Excessive College. She is the daughter of Johnny Humboldt, a tech CEO now political strategist. He’s divorced from Margaret. After the divorce, Margaret lives alone with Phoenix and Nathan.
The day would have been an odd day in class. Nevertheless, when Phoenix is within the courtyard pictures are fired from the varsity roof. Eager to protect her associates, she jumps in entrance of them and will get hit.
San Mateo Police assisted by different regulation enforcement companies safe the world and examine the roof. One thing is off. Was this capturing completed by a scholar for an as-of-yet unknown motive or by another person? The issue is that with the various pictures fired just one particular person bought hit, Phoenix. Might this have been a homicide try? However why? Perhaps the trigger is her father courting US Senator and embellished Air Pressure Veteran Tamika Smith.
Tamika Smith
Smith has been receiving threatening emails. She both does as she is advised or her actions might be made public. The sender refers to her service within the Air Pressure and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, then Lieutenant Smith rescued a co-pilot from a downed Pave Hawk. She left behind to die, the pilot and the person who raped her, Air Pressure Captain Derrick Tomlinson. The rape was by no means reported however she had described it in a letter to her brother.
Watching over Tamika and following her on the net, is an previous good friend. Bryce Roscovitch, a famend hacker we met within the Wilkes Rebel, has the chicken’s eye view on the varsity capturing and certainly, one thing is off.
Knowledgeable would have hit Phoenix with one shot and wouldn’t want a navy grade weapon. So why the various pictures? Bryce digs deeper. By hacking into folks’s residence safety methods, ATMs, and different cameras, he finds an fascinating particular person strolling by the suburbs.
That very same particular person then kidnaps Johnny Humboldt pretending to be FBI escorting him to his wounded daughter. This story line results in Europe the place the varsity shooter and kidnapper is plotting their subsequent step.
Cash and energy
Additionally plotting are enterprise capitalists Lee Bowen and enterprise accomplice Ely Basof. Wealthy past your wildest desires, every is raring to achieve extra, and prepared to do no matter it takes. The plan? Disrupt the monetary establishments of America, crash the inventory markets, then purchase to get management. However that’s not all. When you understand how to arrange a company on the net that permits members to kind teams that may be despatched out on missions, the chaos is full.
To make sense of every thing that’s occurring, FBI Deputy Director Jerry “JJ” Jessup groups up with Bryce Roscovitch and one different hacker. That collaboration results in a plot unfolding quick.
Critique
The storyline is cleverly put collectively however by explaining all of the used strategies and the political lectures, the reader is forward of the characters. We all know the place it’s going however have to attend for the characters to catch up. Additionally, I might quite have a heated debate, even a shouting match between characters than a well-spoken narrator.
Take away
The characters on this story have extra depth than in Bach’s earlier e-book. The results of divorce on the youngsters and getting used to your mother and father courting new folks, is properly completed.
The tempo fluctuates. It flows properly however some discussions don’t really feel like dialogues. They’re the message Bach desires us to know. That’s his selection.
The ending of the e-book is according to the type of Bach’s earlier e-book. Sadly, it takes energy away from the momentum he had so rigorously constructed up. If you learn it, you will notice what I imply.
When you prefer to examine know-how, funds, hackers and their working strategies, however most of all, how characters understand what they imply to one another, that is for you.
The Blockchain Syndicate by Robbie Bach comes out October 21, 2015.
Be aware
I obtained an Advance Reader’s Copy from Fauzia Burke, President at FSB Associates, in alternate for an sincere overview. My different e-book evaluations are right here.
