The Internet rules, or so Dr. Gideon Wolfe thinks in the year 2023. That is, until the wife of a murdered Internet special-effects genius calls him and gives him a carefully "doctored" CD ROM disc. From the time Dr. Wolfe discovers its tie to the assassination of the American President, life speeds along at a pace that is consistently just one step from total chaos and terror. Dr. Wolfe's only confidante about these terrible revelations is murdered or, properly put, pulverized and vaporized.

What person or persons has masterminded these seemingly related deaths? The reader is about to meet a group of Internet experts who see only the brainwashing and destructive aspects of this means of communication that has brought the world to the snap-second decisions and manipulative spread of information which will bring about the end of the world. They have a plan to bring this awareness to the political, business, and individual Internet global community, one in which the reader will be caught up in with almost full approval. That is for awhile, anyway.

Scientific and military leaders want to maintain control, at all costs. The obvious conflict follows with breath-taking action scenes, romance that further snares Dr. Wolfe into the intrigue, and enough suspense to keep the reader up all day and night.

Who will be the winner? How much of Internet material is believable? What is its function and promise for a better world? The Internet masterminds will have you asking questions about how gullible or analytical we should be when consuming Internet information. Have the media just added one more area of spin control and will it plunge the world into its own richly deserved destruction?

Read on and enjoy this intelligent thriller crafted by a writer who has "done one better" than his previous two, stunning novels that have caught America's riveting focus. Frequent writer of military and political affairs, Caleb Carr is also the author of the novels, The Alienist and Angel of Darkness

Prepare yourself for the rollercoaster ride of your life!

Reviewed by Viviane Crystal