The Scarecrow

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Imagine, someone is busy pressing buttons to isolate you totally: your ATM card/Pinpas and mobile phone die. You cancelled your credit cards yourself and also transferred your bank balance to charity. Your recent outgoing e-mails are deleted and your employer's intranet is compromised, wide open to further abuse. This happened to LA Times journalist Jack McEvoy, days after he was fired as number 99 from a deathlist of 100. He was offered 2 weeks extra pay to prepare his cheaper successor Angela to succeed him. But she is found cruelly murdered only days later...

Ten years ago Jack and FBI agent Rachel Walling nailed the Poet, a serial killer. Jack wrote a bestseller about the case and bought a house from the proceeds. Rachel was exiled to South Dakota for 5 years. They meet again in this case: Alonzo (16) is accused of the murder of a drug-addicted stripper found in the boot of her own car. He admits having stolen the car, but nothing else. His grandma phones and challenges Jack to look into the boy's case. Whereupon strange things begin to happen with Jack's data carriers. But mainly after Jack hits on another, identical murder in Las Vegas...

MC writes perfectly-researched thrillers with multiple story lines. This tale is also about the ongoing decline of newspapers and serious journalism and the ascent of sound bite-driven news reporting on TV, internet and social media. More recently, Jon Talton wrote another passionate defense of solid journalism in Seattle in his thriller `Deadline Man'. Thirdly, it is about 'cloud computing', whereby many large and more smaller companies, such as law firms producing vast amounts of daily-changing data, believe their data are cheaper and better guarded in anonymous bunkers than on their own premises...

But as an ancient saying goes,`Who guards the Guardians?'. Scary thriller about blind faith in the internet and its services and some men's abilities to commit uncharted types of crime.

Imagine someone busily pressing buttons to isolate you totally: your cash card and mobile phone die. You cancelled your credit cards yourself and also transferred your bank balance to charity. Your recent outgoing e-mails were deleted and your employer's intranet is compromised and wide open to further abuse. This happened to LA Times journalist Jack McEvoy, days after he was fired as number 99 from a deathlist of 100. He was offered 2 weeks extra pay to prepare his cheaper successor Angela to succeed him. But she is found cruelly murdered only days later...

Ten years ago Jack and FBI agent Rachel Walling nailed the Poet, a serial killer. Jack wrote a bestseller about the case and bought a house from the proceeds. Rachel was exiled to South Dakota for 5 years. They meet again in this case: Alonzo (16) is accused of the murder of a drug-addicted stripper found in the boot of her own car. He admits having stolen the car, but nothing else. His grandma phones and challenges Jack to look into the boy's case. Whereupon strange things begin to happen with Jack's data carriers. But mainly after Jack hits on another, identical murder in Las Vegas...

MC writes perfectly-researched thrillers with multiple story lines. This tale is also about the ongoing decline of newspapers and serious journalism and the ascent of sound bite-driven news reporting on TV, internet and social media. More recently, Jon Talton wrote another passionate defense of solid journalism in Seattle in his thriller `Deadline Man'. Thirdly, it is about 'cloud computing', whereby many large and more smaller companies, such as law firms producing vast amounts of daily-changing data, believe their data are cheaper and better guarded in anonymous bunkers than on their own premises...

But as an ancient saying goes,`Who guards the Guardians?'. Scary thriller about blind faith in the internet and its services and some men's abilities to commit uncharted types of crime.

Michael Connelly is al jaren mijn nr 1 misdaadschrijver, zijn personage Harry Biosch staat voor mij aan de top van de misdaadhelden. Al is de halfbroer van Harry: ook erg goed. Michael Connelly schrijft de Harry Boschboeken in de 3 e persoon en de Mickey Hallerboeken in de 1 e persoon. Hij kan de personages heel goed beschrijven dus je leeft erg mee met Hary en Mickey. Als je van het misdaadgenre houdt dan moet je zeker minimaal 2 boek van Michael Connelly hebben gelezen