Review by Booklist Review
*Starred Review* When Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was having its run, service people left the theater muttering, That wasn't a satire. That's what they're like. So it is with Eisler's fine thriller. His power-mad loons, who pull the levers of supersecret government organizations, aren't exaggerated for dramatic effect. We know that because Eisler has appended an 18-page guide to all the nasty stuff governments do in the name of national security. His achievement, though, is to make this cybersnoop world not just a backdrop but instead a vital and wonderfully vile character on its own. Evelyn Gallagher, head of the NSA's camera network and facial-recognition program, observes a meeting between a reporter and a would-be whistle-blower. She reports it to her boss, who decides the two must be killed and Evelyn spied upon because now she knows too much. The agent sent to monitor her is not quite what the boss thinks, and the personal and cyberfink stories are blended beautifully. Tension and action spice the plot, but that's all that can be revealed here. Someone might be watching.--Crinklaw, Don Copyright 2015 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
In this intricately plotted thriller from bestseller Eisler (Graveyard of Memories), NSA analyst Evelyn Gallagher warns Theodore Anders, the NSA director, that her worldwide spy system has tagged a senior NSA official meeting in Istanbul with an investigative reporter-an indicator that a major security breach may be happening. But she unwisely expresses her suspicion to the Anders that the NSA seems to be proactive in the permanent removal of such persons, making herself a threat to his highly illegal God's Eye program. Gallagher, a single mother supporting her deaf young son, Dash, now becomes the target of the director's wet-work specialists, the sadistic Thomas Delgado and Marvin Manus, a deaf brute with a deadly skill set. But Manus finds himself bonding with Dash and then becomes attracted to Gallagher. When the two fall into a romantic entanglement, all hell breaks loose. Eisler's expert knowledge of spycraft and hand-to-hand combat combine with his ultra-deep distrust of government intelligence to propel this suspenseful yarn into the front ranks of paranoid thrillers. Agent: Laura Rennert, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Library Journal Review
Evelyn Gallagher is a smart, skilled computer analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA). When a series of events occur in Turkey, she sees that something is not quite right and her suspicions are verified when a terrorist bombing takes place in Washington, DC. She and her deaf son become the targets of "The Director," a megalomaniac who believes that the NSA is too constrained by post-Snowden theorizing and who has supervised the development of a supersnooper program known as God's Eye that will effectively destroy any remaining semblance of privacy in the United States. He assigns his top assassin to neutralize Evie and her son. Eisler, who knows the inside workings of the government he describes, narrates, giving this fast-paced thriller a heightened sense of chills and suspense. VERDICT Highly recommended for all libraries. ["Sure to captivate fans of Lee Child or Daniel Silva": LJ 2/15/16 review of the Thomas & Mercer: Amazon hc.]-Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg Air Force Base Lib., Lompoc, CA © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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