Way too many hackers involved in creating a virus to knock out the US internet system and either create havoc or create lots of tragedies, like plane crashes, dam malfunctions, power plant errors etc. due to our dependence on the internet. There are way way too many spies/secret societies involved, & it's always said the more people involved- the more chances for exposure by any one of them. This novel is difficult to swallow in that regard.
Is it Russians? Chechens? Mafia? Muslims? Single individual? Arabs? New characters intro'd on page 162 which is too far into this mishmosh of people for me to even GAS. Some of the spies have multiple names, online names, alias's, nicknames there are way too many hackers most of the time I have no idea who's the good guys and who's the bad guys which causes me to lose interest.
Some crap about Yousef too far towards the end of the book, and his complicated life from birth to now I just skipped that chapter. Then after learning words like "triggers" and other hacker terms, author throws in other hackers different terms for same words like red, yellow etc representing 'triggers' it gets too deeply detailed and I just drift off into lala land. Some actual action happens around chapter 50 or so but by then you've been dulled into wanting to read something else.
Less is more. What happened to that? There's too many people, too many conspiracies, too many individuals, too many hackers, too many viruses and worms and whatever. Too much of too much.
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