322 pages
Published May 31, 2016 by Liquididea Press.
By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women.
When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users' fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is--another evil abuser. Using her coding and hacking expertise, she decides to destroy Tomo by building a new social network that is completely distributed, compartmentalized, and unstoppable. If she succeeds, it will be the end of all centralized power in the Internet.
But how can an anti-social, one-armed programmer with too many dark secrets succeed when the world's largest tech company is out to crush her and a no-name government black ops agency …
By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women.
When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users' fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is--another evil abuser. Using her coding and hacking expertise, she decides to destroy Tomo by building a new social network that is completely distributed, compartmentalized, and unstoppable. If she succeeds, it will be the end of all centralized power in the Internet.
But how can an anti-social, one-armed programmer with too many dark secrets succeed when the world's largest tech company is out to crush her and a no-name government black ops agency sets a psychopath to look into her growing digital footprint?"
I enjoyed this a lot. A couple plot twists felt forced, but he moves it along briskly and the technical detail is dead-on (and there is a lot of it). Recommended.
“What made you decide to build Tapestry?” Where do I begin? I can’t say killing people eats away at the fragile remains of my humanity
Wow. I started reading this and fell into the mindset of "another heroin with traumatic history?" but it really and 100% worked. She's cool, and the world of geek somehow fits around the corporate like it was meant to. Snappy sentences like “You haven’t committed any code in five days. You’re not fine” and “There’s a second copy of the video on an SSD in the freezer” add authenticity and realism to a landscape quite conceivably today and here and now.
I was hooked, and the intense scene at the end of chapter 45 was a highlight. That's the sort of writing that makes a building story very much worth ones while. I want to finish the Avogadro books now; this novel has given me …
“What made you decide to build Tapestry?” Where do I begin? I can’t say killing people eats away at the fragile remains of my humanity
Wow. I started reading this and fell into the mindset of "another heroin with traumatic history?" but it really and 100% worked. She's cool, and the world of geek somehow fits around the corporate like it was meant to. Snappy sentences like “You haven’t committed any code in five days. You’re not fine” and “There’s a second copy of the video on an SSD in the freezer” add authenticity and realism to a landscape quite conceivably today and here and now.
I was hooked, and the intense scene at the end of chapter 45 was a highlight. That's the sort of writing that makes a building story very much worth ones while. I want to finish the Avogadro books now; this novel has given me a new appreciation of Hertling's writing.
