Going Zero

I'm not sure how I came across this, but I tore through this action thriller in just a few days. The writing is fast-paced and once you get going, it's difficult to stop. Definitely a great summer vacation read or something to pass the time while traveling.

This may be somewhat novel to many readers, however, the topic, where the State and major tech enterprises know everything about everyone, is basically what I've been reading in my fiction for the past 25 years. The author glosses over a few of the technical bits and there are a couple "hacks" that I can't quite suspend enough disbelief for, but I think this is meant for a mainstream audience and not cybersecurity folks. Still, I really enjoyed it and recommend.

The premise was good, and the first half of the book flew by. Towards the end of the book when it started to get into the weeds a little with technical things it fell apart for me. A lot of the technical detail was just words thrown together haphazardly (hint: a teraflop is not an amount of storage). Also, my Kindle edition of this book had a clickable link as part of the plot, but the link doesn't work and the site it links to seems to be a real site that is unrelated to this book - I have never seen anything like that before.