Killing Time
Information flows freely in 2023, but is all--or "any"--of it accurate? Criminal profiler Dr. Gideon Wolfe investigates the murder of a friend in New York City when he is suddenly caught up in the company of a beautiful woman, her ingenious brother, and a band of techno-terrorists at war with the...
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Information flows freely in 2023, but is all--or "any"--of it accurate? Criminal profiler Dr. Gideon Wolfe investigates the murder of a friend in New York City when he is suddenly caught up in the company of a beautiful woman, her ingenious brother, and a band of techno-terrorists at war with the world itself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446610957 (044661095X)
ASIN: 044661095X
Publish date: January 1st 2002
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
written in a (u/dys)topian literary style, which includes a typical banging of the ideologue drum. surprisingly perceptive, given that it was published in 2000, is talking about many of the things we deal with today - misinformation and dissemination of the "official story", privacy, corporate influ...
A book that still has me wondering, a polemic look into the future where the issues are more important than the thriller aspects, a story of love and tragedy and near-future nastiness. Written before 9-11 but some of the points are quite poignant!
Do you remember that bit in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency when it turns out two brothers have been working under the one doctor's certificate? I wonder if there are two Carr brothers up to the same shenanigans because this is truly awful.Onwards and upwards - bring on the next!
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