Data Never Dies. But People Do.Alex Vane was once a top investigative journalist. Now he peddles celebrity gossip and clickbait listicles, watching from a distance as his wife moves on with her life – without him. Alex’s past catches up with him when he learns that an old source, James Stacy, has been killed in a random mass shooting.But James left Alex one last scoop: a 50-year-old hard drive … 50-year-old hard drive that may contain a secret worth killing for…and the name of the one person who can help him access the data. That person is Quinn Rivers, a paranoid and reclusive computer expert who believes the CIA is tracking her every move. And she may be right.
When Alex shows up at her door with the hard drive, armed operatives are right behind him. Now Alex and Quinn are on the run. There is no one to trust, nowhere to hide, and nothing but the hard drive to prove that James Stacy’s death wasn’t random at all.
Series List:
The Cutline (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 0)
The Anonymous Source (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 1)
The Inverted Pyramid (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 2)
The Mockingbird Drive (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 3)
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While I don’t always understand the high-tech terminology, the story is a good one and has certainly kept my interest. After the first couple of chapters, I was hooked; it definitely was good til the end!!
This was not a book I would recommend. After first 50 pages, I was bored stiff and didn’t care.
great series
Looking forward to our hero’s follow up adventures
The writer created a colorful cast of characters for this story. The real star of this book is Quinn, a quirky computer specialist who is consumed with conspiracy theories, and paranoid the government is out to get her. After a series of unfortunate events, fearing for their lives, Alex Vane and Quinn find themselves thrown together in a race to extract the data off an old computer hard drive. The data recovery is essential to the main plot and helps to tie in the sub-plots. I was really disappointed in the big reveal though because I found the whole scenario anti-climatic after such a big build-up. But, for the most part, the storyline surrounding Quinn is what makes this story interesting and entertaining. This would have been a two, possibly three star book without her character and antics.
Too much detail into background story, slowed the book down
Slow dragging story that did not come together until the last quarter of the book. Will not read this author again
I couldn’t put it down.
Good
Very unrealistic.
The views presented about modern journalism were disturbing in their accuracy. The impact of the Patriot Act on our lives was more-so.
The book was boring but thrilling at times. It did have some interesting features about journalism, the cia & fbi and how they operate! If you don’t have anything else to read then go for it..
Very excellent read.
I wasn’t crazy about this one. It moved a little slowly for my tastes!
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