4 of 5 stars
Big Brother is watching
you. The government is amassing great quantities of data about its citizens and feeding it all to a supercomputer that analyzes it for the purposes of
weeding out anyone that poses a danger to the United States. It’s fiction,
right? Who is to say, but this is the premise behind FALSE POSITIVES.
The story starts in 1973
when a brilliant UC Berkeley graduate student creates the first computer virus
during a drug-induced haze. The program is loaded into the computer, but
seemingly disappears without a trace. Fast forward to 2007 and traces of the
virus are beginning to corrupt the US’s most powerful supercomputer. Marnie
McCloud, a computer expert, is hired by the government to program “Junior” (her
name for the supercomputer) and she is the one that begins to see traces of the
virus in the recommendations of terrorists that “Junior” spits out. She takes
it upon herself to try and track down the original programmer to undue the
corruption, but there are some that don’t want her to find him.
The author takes the reader
on a thrill ride that will keep the most die-hard thriller fans
entertained. Christian and Muslim
ideology is featured extensively and Mr. Aleksander’s knowledge about these 2
religions as well as computer programming is impressive as he weaves a heart-pounding
story. The characters are well-fleshed out and there are quite a few surprises
revealed.
One criticism is that
the book could use the eyes of a good editor. There were many typos throughout
the book and they continued to jar me out the story. I also skipped over much
of the computer programming paragraphs, not because they were inaccurate, but
because I didn’t really care how the computer worked and I was eager to get
back to the story. Recommended.
This book was provided by the World Literary Cafe.
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