Big brother is here and he is us.
If a little old lady hits a guy with her rolled up newspaper its on YouTube that night. If someone uses a word others don’t like, it’s around the world in a thousand blogs in a moment. There are cameras everywhere and everyone is watching.
Most readers are familiar with the story of “1984″. I read it about three times for a college paper I received a “C” on and a couple times since then. The government is big brother watching and controlling our every move. Everyone must conform and believe what they are being told. Sound familiar?
I don’t believe the government has the time, interest, or resources to be ”Big Brother” but we do.
I think it interesting that Mr. Orwell chose sex as the main objection of the totalitarian big brother. Of course it was love that had to be excised from the brain of the two lovers. We can’t have people actually regarding each other as more important than they do our message and what we want them to believe.
Today of course sex is more than OK, it has to be accepted in any and all forms, but just don’t mention love, or caring or consideration between the partners. These ideas have to be kept shunted away in romantic comedies because they have no place in the real world
I wonder, if and when, the dust settles and one political side or the other wins, if you will be able to disagree with anything even in the privacy of your own home without seeing it on the net. After all you bought that nifty new camera phone for your child and…..
So for Halloween read a really scary book.
Take a bunch of ruthless ex-KGB hit men and put them up against a super accident reconstructionist with a PHD in physics who owns fast cars and you get a plot you don’t see every day. Darwin Minor is a complex character who has his own devils to fight when he accidentally makes the wrong enemies. Throw in some other complex characters such as a tough female FBI agent and a well known undercover agent (yes I meant well known undercover agent)and you get good plotting, and interesting story.
Mr. Simmons presents us with an interesting and different story about insurance fraud and claims adjusting and builds up to much more. We see our world being warped by greed, the intricacies of high level investigation and a different look at how people desperate to enter the U.S. are being victimized.
Mr. Simmmons writes tight and fast. He constructs his stories with multiple layers without confusing the reader along the way. He has well developed characters and is simply a good story teller. If you like different crime and character stories you will like this one.
Take a bunch of ruthless ex-KGB hit men and put them up against a super accident reconstructionist with a PHD in physics who owns fast cars and you get a plot you don’t see every day. Darwin Minor is a complex character who has his own devils to fight when he accidentally makes the wrong enemies. Throw in some other complex characters such as a tough female FBI agent and a well known undercover agent (yes I meant well known undercover agent)and you get good plotting, and interesting story.