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Paperback Book Details
  • 07/2015
  • 9780692439654 069243965X
  • 376 pages
  • $13.99
Ebook Details
  • 07/2015
  • B0137IL7W6
  • 347 pages
  • $2.99
Stella Whiteman
Author
Control Alter Delete: A Novel

Adult; Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror; (Market)

London, 2059. Ezra Hurst’s quiet drink after work soon spices up when a woman called Lena arrives in the bar. She could have sat anywhere, but slips onto the stool right by his side. Tells risqué tales, helps herself to his fries. Her looks are intriguing; ten years in biometrics, but he’s never seen eyes so bright and green. Who is this woman? And why, after all the flirting, does she suddenly disappear? Not just from the bar but from all intelligence data too. Aside from his personal disappointment, he's angling for promotion, and the last thing he needs are suspicious gaps in his security records. To make matters worse, he's under pressure from a young anti-surveillance campaigner called Suzanne. Her brother has been missing for several weeks and she accuses Ezra's department of doctoring his records. Ezra must respond immediately; his company’s plan to roll out nationwide thought-tracking is controversial enough without angry activists making false accusations. His information coming from addicts and gamblers and people known to be liars, Ezra has his work cut out establishing any facts. But when his investigations lead to a series of horrific discoveries, finding Lena takes on chilling urgency.
Reviews
Whiteman’s near-future Orwellian thriller is a promising debut that matches its interesting ideas with solid writing and fleshed-out characters. In 2059 London, Ezra Hurst handles anomalies for Sense, a global surveillance company. His boss assigns him to handle a complaint by Suzanne Dixon, a member of Opposition to Mandatory Neural Implants, which has been campaigning against Sense’s efforts to expand its capabilities. Suzanne’s brother, Gavin, had been a brilliant mathematician before suffering serious injuries in a train crash; he’s been missing for five weeks, and Suzanne doesn’t believe Sense’s video records that show him leaving town by train. Apart from his understandable refusal to travel that way after the accident, Suzanne notes some oddities in the surveillance records that lead Ezra to believe that she’s on to something. Simultaneously, he’s trying to solve the puzzle of an attractive woman who hit on him at a bar and whose image doesn’t appear in Sense’s records. Plausible and imaginative technological developments, such as software that uses “visual hypotheses” to combine computer-generated images with actual footage, enhance the gripping thriller plot. (BookLife)
Formats
Paperback Book Details
  • 07/2015
  • 9780692439654 069243965X
  • 376 pages
  • $13.99
Ebook Details
  • 07/2015
  • B0137IL7W6
  • 347 pages
  • $2.99
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