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Bezig met laden... Zimmerman's Algorithmdoor S. Andrew Swann
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Veteran writer S. Andrew Swann turns his talents to a mainstream techno-thriller that combines the authentic detail of Tom Clancy, the global intrigue of Jack Higgins, and the sheer adventure of Clive Cussler.Gideon Malcolm was a Washington DC cop who stumbled into the midst of a high-level sting operation gone wrong and nearly paid with his life. Now he wants answers. But the government wants him to forget the whole thing. Yet Gideon wasn't about to give up, and what began with a stolen super computer soon led him on the trail of a missing woman, Dr. Zimmerman--and into the heartof a conspiracy so vast, so devastating, that the entire world would be caught up in its power! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Well, the building isn’t empty, and the brothers find themselves ambushed. Both are shot, Raphael fatally. And, to make matters worse, the shooters (or, at least so their uniforms say) are from the Department of Treasury.
Well, this is another disaster like Ruby Ridge and Waco, and some public official has to be sacrificed. And we see that high levels of the CIA and National Security Advisor D’Arcy are concerned with Daedalus and finding one Dr. Julia Zimmerman.
Meanwhile, Gideon, on medical disability, decides to investigate the real story behind that fateful night. That will mean following up with informants, engaging an old detective colleague turned security consultant, and going to Zimmerman’s old employer of MIT.
Along the way, there will be plenty of dead bodies, attacks, and double-crosses.
Rogue intelligence operations would have seemed merely stock espionage thriller cliches if I had read this book when it first came out. Now they seem more plausible.
I haven’t read a lot of mystery and suspense novels from this time period, but, from the perspective of 23 years on, it’s an impressive cyberthriller that edges into science fiction. We have references to Y2K, computer viruses, evolutionary algorithms, artificial life of the cybernetic variety, cyberwarfare, and even the Riemann hypothesis.
Zimmerman is not one of Swann’s usual villains with a mere will to power. She has different obsessions. But she’s unconcerned about collateral damage in pursuing them. Or, by some lights, maybe she’s not a villain at all.
If you make allowances for its time, this story is an engaging, fast-moving novel that successfully combines intrigue and action with some ideas from mathematics, philosophy, and computer engineering. (It’s also somewhat shorter than Swann’s usual novels.) ( )