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The footprints of God : aka Dark matter / Greg Iles.
Squamish Library Adult Fiction Bookclub
Record details
- ISBN: 1416564098
- ISBN: 9781416564096
- ISBN: 1416564096 :
- Physical Description: 546 p. ; 19 cm.
- Edition: 2004.
- Publisher: New York : Pocket Star Books, c2003.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Includes preview pages from "Third Degree" by Greg Iles. |
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| Subject: | Information technology > Fiction. Technological innovations > Fiction. Medical ethics > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Technothrillers. Suspense fiction. Medical thrillers. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Salmo Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salmo Public Library | PBK FIC ILE (Text) | 35163000045372 | Paperback Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2003 July #1
Iles, author of eight best-sellers, takes the standard paranoid thriller starring an endangered man and the woman who believes he's delusional until a series of shocks forces her to accept the too-strange-to-believe truth--and makes it run like Mussolini's trains. Everything arrives on time, as expected: boy is involved in scientific experiment; boy loses parts of mind; boy meets girl; boy runs away with girl after coworkers sniff out his suspicions and decide to snuff out his life. In this case, physician and ethicist Dr. David Tennant has spent the last few years of his life working on government-funded, hush-hush Project Trinity, which strives to build a supercomputer by liberating human intelligence from the human body. As the project progresses, Tennant's ethical concerns increase, especially when Trinity team members begin to develop neurological disorders. Once Tennant has sought psychiatric help, his psychiatrist (naturally, a beautiful woman) is drawn into the guessing game of whether Tennant is paranoid or insightful. With the murder of Tennant's closest colleague, and Tennant's inability to cover his disillusionment with the project, the game is afoot, as the government bears down on our hero and his psychiatrist friend. Cardboard characters and a mostly predictable plot, but Iles, a consummate storyteller, keeps suspense and blood pressure high. ((Reviewed July 2003)) Copyright 2003 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2003 July #1
Wildly unbelievable tale of a sentient computer that-what else?-seizes control of the Internet, the world's military defense systems, and a medical ethicist.A great, grab-you-by-the-throat beginning ("If you're watching this tape, I'm dead") rapidly loses strength as Iles (Sleep No More, 2002, etc.) piles up several far-fetched premises. Dr. David Tennant, a conveniently widowed medical ethicist who's partly responsible for the development of Project Trinity, has been troubled by periods of narcolepsy, followed by peculiar visions, ever since his brain was scanned by a tremendously powerful MRI machine. Tennant's scan, along with others, has been used to create a secret supercomputer for the National Security Agency. Tennant's medical knowledge leads him to believe that the fatal stroke recently suffered by another member of the computer development team, Dr. Arthur Fielding, was actually murder: Fielding had misgivings about the computer, contemplated halting the project, and used holographic technology to hide information about the project in the crystal of his fob watch. The NSA, with egotistic tech billionaire Peter Godin and scheming NSA Deputy Director John Skow, want the project to continue, and they've gotten the psychotically vicious NSA security operative Geli Bauer eager to lie, cheat, steal, and kill to please her superiors. Only Tennant's psychiatrist, Rachel Weiss, believes that he just might not be crazy as they set off, with $20,000 in cash and NSA goons on their trail, to Fielding's Nags Head vacation home and then to Israel to learn more about the source of his visions. Meanwhile, Trinity takes over, neutron bomb-tipped missiles are launched and, instead of stopping them, Trinity insists on discussing gee-whiz theology with Tennant in preparation for a final step that might give Trinity godlike powers.At his best (Black Cross, 1995, for instance), Iles enlivened a tired formula about American WWII commandos behind enemy lines thwarting a Nazi plan. Here, the laughable improbabilities in a Frankenstein/Colossus/2001: A Space Odyssey rehash bring on the literary equivalent of a systems crash. Copyright Kirkus 2003 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2003 April #1
When noble young doctor David Tennant and his psychiatrist, Rachel Weiss, discover that they have been targeted for death by the NSA because they know too much about a dangerous new technology, they must rely on David's weird dreams to give them some directive. With a six-city author tour. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews August #1
From its masterly opening line, Iles's (24 Hours) latest thriller is impossible to put down. We find Dr. David Tennant contemplating his life after friend and mentor Andrew Fielding is found dead in his lab. A stroke is the suspected cause, but David knows better because both men were part of an ultra-top-secret project known as Project Trinity, a quantum leap in the future of supercomputing and artificial intelligence. Both men had warned their managers about the experiment's dangers, and now David believes that he is next on the hit list. But he is starting to show strange side effects from the treatment he undertook for the project and is experiencing vivid visions of being Jesus Christ. His psychiatrist thinks that he should be institutionalized, until she, too, is targeted to be killed. The reader must make a great leap of faith in the final third of the book, and while not everyone will agree with Iles's conclusions, the work as a whole is extremely compelling. This is Iles's best book yet and should be a major best seller. For all fiction collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/03.]-Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2003 June #4
The shoot-'em-up potential of spiritual subject matter has recently been profitably exploited by a number of writers (most notably James BeauSeigneur in his Christ Clone trilogy). In this compelling, science-based entry, Iles (Sleep No More; 24 Hours; The Quiet Game) gives his own particular spin on biblical mayhem. "My name is David Tennant, M.D. I'm professor of ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School, and if you're watching this tape, I'm dead." Tennant works for Project Trinity, a secret government organization attempting to build a quantum-level supercomputer. Using advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques, Tennant and five other top scientists have supplied Trinity, the experimental computer, with molecular copies of themselves as models for a neurological operating system. As Trinity comes to life, the men who control the experiment begin to split into competing factions, each determined to use the computer for his own ends. When Tennant tries to shut the project down because of ethical considerations, he is marked for death by the beautiful but physically and psychologically scarred Geli Bauer, head of security. Iles writes himself onto a high wire that stretches over a dangerous fictional chasm as Tennant begins to have narcoleptic seizures and see life through the eyes of Jesus Christ. That this talented author makes it to the other side without falling is testament to his ingenuity and intelligence. Armageddon looms as nuclear missiles streak toward the United States, and the fate of mankind rests on Tennant's ability to reason with the omnipotent Trinity. Readers interested in the exploration of religious themes without the usual New Age blather or window-dressed dogma will snap up this novel of cutting-edge science. (Aug.) Forecast: This is likely to be the biggest hit yet for bestselling Iles, since it will appeal to the (many) devotees of apocalyptic fiction, as well as to Iles's usual fan base. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
