Synopsis:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author of A Deadly Wandering comes a pulse-pounding technological thriller—as ingenious as the works of Michael Crichton and as urgent and irresistible as an episode of 24—in which one man has three days to prevent annihilation: the outbreak of World War III.
Computer genius Jeremy Stillwater has designed a machine that can predict global conflicts and ultimately head them off. But he’s a stubborn guy, very sure of his own genius, and has wound up making enemies, and even seen his brilliant invention discredited.
There’s nowhere for him to turn when the most remarkable thing happens: his computer beeps with warning that the outbreak of World War III is imminent, three days and counting.
Alone, armed with nothing but his own ingenuity, he embarks on quest to find the mysterious and powerful nemesis determined to destroy mankind. But enemies lurk in the shadows waiting to strike. Could they have figured out how to use Jeremy, and his invention, for their own evil ends?
Before he can save billions of lives, Jeremy has to figure out how to save his own. . . .
Author Bio:
Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning technology reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of A Deadly Wandering and the novels The Cloud and Devil's Plaything.
Matt lives in San Francisco with his wife, Meredith, their son, Milo, and daughter, Mirabel. He’s an avid tennis player and recreational athlete; a prideful maker of guacamole for parties; and periodic (and not good) songwriter. Matt grew up in Boulder, Colorado, the son of two avid readers, attended Boulder High School, and obtained a bachelors degree in rhetoric from University of California at Berkeley and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.
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Review:
Jeremy Stillwater is a top-level genius with a magnificent higher education and what is likely high-functioning Asperger's. He's invented computer algorithms to adjudge the probability and locations of conflict. That brought global recognition and investment, until a spectacular military predictive failure. Now his friends and partners have become embittered and greedy enemies. So be it, Jeremy decides--until his patented program predicts complete global apocalypse--its epicentre San Francisco--its commencement: 72 hours.
Like Neal Stephenson, Matt Richtel grasps the pulse of the technological revolution and the directions it is likely to impel us. But he also understands psychology, and in Jeremy he presents an unusual but compelling protagonist.
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Sounds like an interesting techno-thriller! Thanks so much for introducing us to it!
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