Book Review: Quantum Web

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Quantum Web     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Tom Grace
Class/Genre:   Mystery   High-Tech   Thriller
Warner, Aug 2000, $24.95, 372 pp.

On December 10, 1948 in Ann Arbor, someone guns down scientist Johann Wolf. The killer honestly thought Johann collaborated with the Nazis, helping murder innocent people through medical experiments.

Fifty years later at the University of Michigan, Professors Ted Sandstrom and Raphael Paramo invent a device that generates and stores a large amount of energy from a much smaller source. However, a Russian scientist listens to Ted’s lecture before returning home to inform her bosses about the cutting edge technology.

Moscow businessman Victor Olov plans to attain the device even if it requires KGB-like skills to succeed. This places Olov and his minions against Nolan Kilkenny who plans to make the eventual transfer of Ted’s experimental design to industrial use. Olov and Kilkenny soon learn that Ted’s work follows much of the theories of the ingenious Johann, missing for fifty years.

QUANTUM is an exciting thriller that entertains the reader although it’s understandable there is a lot of difficult scientific information provided in the fast-paced story line. The lead couple is an enchanting duet who loves one another, but has not yet committed to each other. The villain is a stereotypical nasty character who is a Russian capitalist who will do anything to gain an edge. Fans of scientific espionage thrillers will fully enjoy Tom Grace returning with the stars of his previous triumphant work SPYDER WEB.

Harriet Klausner

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