Ratings27
Average rating3.5
Tech-bro billionaire Cy Baxter has teamed up with the CIA to test a bleeding-edge, national surveillance program called FUSION. Cy is on the path to a 10-year, $100 billion dollar government contract if he can prove it out.
Enter 10 carefully selected civilians given the task to disappear and avoid capture for 30 days. Whoever can manage that will pocket $3 million dollars. No one suspects that a Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day will somehow manage to avoid capture as the clock counts down.
Simple set-up with a hell of an execution. Short, snappy chapters and enough characters to bounce around and keep the momentum moving even as author McCarten dials up the stakes. This the perfect slump-busting, summer read. While I didn't love the third act turn and found the ending to be a little underwhelming - that's just post-read justifications. I devoured this thing in a few days, happy to suspend disbelief and be carried along for this wholly propulsive ride. Who doesn't love a badass librarian leaning on the real world connections she fosters at her job while she's recommending books to patrons? Makes up for the tantrum-having dick billionaire man-child that we get enough of in the real-world.