Maximum Impact (Circumference of Darkness) and Seven Seconds

[AHadley]

Ooh, this is odd. Writing on a forum about books...

I've been reading Maximum Impact (Circumference of Darkness to you americans) by Jack Henderson recently, and it's a hell of a book, rather gripping. I thought it rather appropriate too, being about two computer nerds. Far and away beyond us, though.

Its sequel, Seven Seconds, I have yet to read. Or see in a shop.


http://www.jackhenderson.com/?page_id=33

Jack Henderson's CIRCUMFERENCE OF DARKNESS (Bantam pb 12/07) is so good, you'll have a hard time believing it's a first novel. The plot is terrific: a brilliant computer hacker, known as Phr33k, is abducted by terrorists who want him to help them bring down the U.S. The country's only hope for survival: a beautiful 22-year-old prodigy, Jeannie Reese, who, after 9/11, designed the country's new high-tech surveillance system. This is the sort of story Michael Crichton could knock out of the park, but Henderson doesn't need Crichton's help to hit a homer. An exciting, suspenseful, and frighteningly plausible near-future thriller.