Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Spyder Web
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Tom Grace
Class/Genre: Mystery High-Tech Thriller
Warner, Jan 1999, $25.00, 451 pp.
Nolan Kilkenny is going home to Ann Arbor after an illustrious but dangerous career as a US Navy SEAL. An excited Nolan looks forward to returning to school and working with his father on the Michigan Applied Research Consortium (MARC) project that, once fully operative, will provide an on-line research library.
However, Nolan's quiet life in academia and information technology abruptly ends when industrial spies steal Spyder, the CIA's IT device that can stealthily enter any network in the world. The thieves plan to test Spyder on MARC's hardware, leaving it up to the former SEAL to try to stop the IT pirates.
In spite of the cover, if readers are looking for Peter Parker, they are in the wrong place. Instead, SPYDER WEB has a unique but exciting hero who will remind readers of Seagal's character in the UNDER SIEGE movies. Tom Grace shows much talent in his debut story. However, he bogs down his tale by gracing it with way too many players and an overwhelming use of IT vernacular without further explanations for readers who are computilITeracy like this reviewer. On the opposite end of the spectrum, IT gurus will love the non-interruption. This novel is a promising start to a new IT thriller writer, who has a fine career ahead of him.
Harriet Klausner
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