26 Oct 2011

The Fear Index - by Robert Harris

I read this book in almost a single sitting - the dubious benefit of a day spent on trains and an aircraft. The story is fast-paced and detailed - just like I would expect from this author. It is more Dan Brown than Stieg Larsson in style, except that I have the impression that it has been subject to the rigorous research that I would expect from Harris and it is not littered with technical errors that seem to characterise Mr. Brown's efforts.

It is a gripping story, but I confess that, at the end, I am not 100% certain that I know what was going on. Had the computer system actually started behaving in amazingly "intelligent" ways or was Hoffmann actually losing his mind? Maybe it is supposed to be ambiguous. 

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