Spyder Web
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Publisher Description
They call it Spyder: a supposedly undetectable intelligence-gathering computer program that can easily penetrate heavily-encrypted computer networks. When ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny discovers its existence, Spyder has already been stolen by three indusrial spies in a heist that quickly escalates to murder and treason. Suddenly, Kilkenny is leading the FBI and CIA in the search for Spyder... and is in the crosshairs of those who will stop at nothing to possess the ultimate spy weapon.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The sizzle of a good thriller is missing from this originally self-published debut, even though Grace fuses brawny action-hero derring-do with brainy computer hacking. After one final mission of government-sanctioned vengeance, Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny, who lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., is eager to get to work for his father's pet project, an online research clearinghouse called MARC (Michigan Applied Research Consortium). Meanwhile, thanks to a financially vulnerable CIA agent, data thieves Alex Roe and Ian Parnell have gotten their hands on Spyder, a CIA prototype of the ultimate hacking program--and they've chosen MARC's mainframe as their test target. Naturally, Kilkenny discovers the theft, and his SEAL talents are called upon to ward off worldwide technological disaster. Despite Grace's use of seemingly every thriller component in the business--Asian killers, Navy SEALs, KGB defectors, high-tech pirates--in scenes that take the reader from Ann Arbor to Puerto Rico, Haiti and London, this novel is curiously devoid of thrills. The SEAL action scenes read like a Muzak version of Richard Marcinko's. The language is jargon-larded without actually explaining the technology. The plot is promising, but Grace's pacing impedes it. By cutting back and forth among the main players, he succeeds not in ratcheting up suspense but only in fracturing a reader's attention.
