Burn-In
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Technological
3.7
P. W. Singer
August Cole
“A white-knuckle adventure . . . This near-future was crafted by experts, and it shows.”—Daniel H. Wilson, New York Times best-selling author of Robopocalypse “Fantastic, compelling, and authoritative.” —General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this ground-breaking book—at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow. America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of shocking catastrophes unfolds, the two find themselves investigating a conspiracy whose mastermind is using cutting-edge tech to rip the nation apart. With every tech, trend, and scene drawn from real-world research, Burn-In blends a techno-thriller’s excitement with nonfiction’s insight to illuminate the darkest corners of the world soon to come.
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Author
P. W. Singer
Pages
432
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2020-05-26
ISBN
1328637891 9781328637895
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"Well here's the thing. I did not like this book. I got about 150 pages in, was not enjoying myself and then went to get a pedicure. I brought the book because I was trying to finish it in time for bookclub. Then, sometime between the salon and home I lost the book. I don't know where it is, but here's the thing. I did not like this book so much to the point that I'd rather flush $20 down the drain and not return to the place that I probably lost it. It's too much technical jargon about what the future of tech might look like. It is also very difficult to read a book about a female protagonist written by two cis men who have No Idea what it is like to be a woman. It was unbelievable, and bad. May this book find its way into the hands of someone else after I left it somewhere, I am very okay with never finding it again."
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Charlotte Dibb
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