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Hooked (Hardcover)

by Matt Richtel (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (6 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0446580082
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446580083
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 967,936 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A very smart and engaging page-turner about the chaos of our present moment and the timeless qualities that make us human' - David Liss, author The Conspiracy of Paper 'If Michael Crichton and John Grisham decided to collaborate on a novel set in Silicon Valley, they might come up with a thriller as cutting-edge and suspenseful as HOOKED' - Rupert Holmes, author Where The Truth Lies.

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Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an internet cafe after a stranger hands him a note warning him to leave immediately. The handwriting is that of his dead girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom he has been mourning obsessively. So begins HOOKED, a pop thriller for the Internet Age, written with the force of an adrenaline rush and the pace of an intimate email despatch you can't stop reading. Each chapter will keep you hooked as Nat searches for the love of his life in the midst of manipulation and conspiracy.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not addictive, 1 Sep 2008
By N. Megahey (Belfast, N Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hooked (Paperback)
Hooked starts with an explosion and an intriguing premise - a San Francisco journalist Nat Idle is sitting in a coffee bar when a mysterious woman leaves him a note telling him to get out of the building fast. Believing she looks like his former girlfriend Annie, who died in a boating accident, he follows her out of the café just as a bomb goes off inside. The novel however goes straight downhill after chapter one with further unlikely and ultimately irrelevant coincidences (the investigating police officer is the brother of a corrupt cop that Nat, a medical journalist, has exposed in one of his articles) poor characterisation and unconvincing depiction of the central relationships between the characters.

It's the credibility in the actual premise however that is the biggest problem with Hooked. I mean, without revealing the plot, towards the end of the novel even the villains laugh at our investigator when he threatens to expose their activities. Who's going to believe a story like that?, they tell him. Who indeed? Certainly not the reader. There may indeed be corruption in Silicon Valley, but I doubt the senior executives and businessmen are as naïve as the ones here seem to be. Even allowing for suspension of disbelief however, and seeing the theme as being a commentary on the addictive nature of home computing and our growing reliance on it, the lack of any particularly likeable characters makes the novel difficult to get hooked on.
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