![]() Alex’s voice is one of a young, professional Public Relations account manager, on her way up (a la Bud Fox,) and she knows how to turn a phrase that haunts the later narrative. This e-book in no way resembles one’s average paperback. Outside, “the buildings were popping up like a line of dominos.” An apt conceit, and nice bit of foreshadowing. Some of the perpetrators have escaped, but others stand at the bar of justice, awaiting sentence. Crimes have been committed, millions swindled out of hundreds of millions in cyber-cash. The first-person narrative of heroine Alex Sanderson commences in media res, her reportage nearly buried amid the throng of an oppressive courtroom. author Emily McDaid’s debut novel–equally classifiable as thriller/suspense, tech-noir, or social criticism, the setting is modern east-London. Or, as Gordon Gekko might say: “Greed is good.” Because while the technology of the media agents Stone likes to target may have improved how the times are recorded, the song of human frailty remains the same. ![]() If Oliver Stone were twenty-five years younger, instead of shooting Wall Street (1987) on film, he might do as well digitally adapting The Boiler Plot (2012) for Hollywood, or at least Pinewood. ![]()
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