Karen
Journalist Grace Marks needs a good story, but she has no idea how good a story she's unearthing when she starts out investigating a surge in suburban minor crime. I mean who would put that much organisation into a series of minor crimes. Maybe a security company CEO, a company that offers some very new technology for people to use in thwarting the aforementioned sorts of minor crimes.
Only the CEO of Erebus Optics turns out to be as suspicious of the owner of the American technology at the core of what his company offers, and despite the fact that Will Manilow's business is booming, there are moves afoot back in the States to stop what the American parent believes there local "reseller" might be about to reveal.
Part a sort of industrial espionage / part an international conspiracy storyline, SURVEILLANCE is one of those books that just grabs the reader and drags them ever forward as Investigative Journalist Grace Marks races to beat an IT specialist (Maria Simmons) to the document that could blow an entire ecosystem of surveillance and control out of existence.
I had my doubts about this storyline as I often have my doubts about technological storylines, but this one worked. Heaps of pace, threat and lurking going on. Very believable scenario that might spook those of us with surveillance camera's from one end of their property to the other (although to be fair, about the only thing being surveilled around here are bloody foxes), but still. It's a pointed reminder that you have to have your eyes open, and your risks mitigated with every single technological item you use / install / tick the privacy box on the conditions of use of.
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.
Journalist Grace Marks needs a good story, but she has no idea how good a story she's unearthing when she starts out investigating a surge in suburban minor crime. I mean who would put that much organisation into a series of minor crimes. Maybe a security company CEO, a company that offers some very new technology for people to use in thwarting the aforementioned sorts of minor crimes.
Only the CEO of Erebus Optics turns out to be as suspicious of the owner of the American technology at the core of what his company offers, and despite the fact that Will Manilow's business is booming, there are moves afoot back in the States to stop what the American parent believes there local "reseller" might be about to reveal.
Part a sort of industrial espionage / part an international conspiracy storyline, SURVEILLANCE is one of those books that just grabs the reader and drags them ever forward as Investigative Journalist Grace Marks races to beat an IT specialist (Maria Simmons) to the document that could blow an entire ecosystem of surveillance and control out of existence.
I had my doubts about this storyline as I often have my doubts about technological storylines, but this one worked. Heaps of pace, threat and lurking going on. Very believable scenario that might spook those of us with surveillance camera's from one end of their property to the other (although to be fair, about the only thing being surveilled around here are bloody foxes), but still. It's a pointed reminder that you have to have your eyes open, and your risks mitigated with every single technological item you use / install / tick the privacy box on the conditions of use of.
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.