The Hidden Layer by Chris Nordberg
Guest Reviewed by The Podler.
A digital oracle meant to predict the movements of the stock market, a man obsessed with finding why his brother had been killed in China in the 1980s, and a computer wizard cross paths when the system malfunctions and starts spitting out predictions of terrorist attacks. Such are the the basic ingredients of Chris Nordberg’s gripping if somewhat uneven thriller, The Hidden Layer.
The story begins in the summer of 1980 in China with the death of Robert Asher and another British teenager Emma Taylor. The unexplained death of his brother becomes the […]