1st Case

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Call Number: Mystery / Patterson, James, Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Patterson, James
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Patterson, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Patterson, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Patterson, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Patterson, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Patterson, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Patterson, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Patterson, James	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024

"Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."-- Provided by publisher.
Angela Hoot's unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school-- and into the FBI's cyber-forensics unit as an intern. There's a messaging app with sophisticated tracking capabilities surfaces. Its beta users, all young women, are only identified as they turn up dead in their bedrooms. As Angela races to crack the killer's digital code, their technical rivalry escalates. She must deny the killer access to her personal life, or risk losing her life to the underbelly of the Internet. -- adapted from Amazon info

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Disappointing submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 25, 2020, 8:45pm The first in what is clearly intended to be a new series "authored" by the inhumanly prolific James Patterson, this one is a clean swing-and-a-miss. We quickly learn that the protagonista, an early-twenties computer genius, has perhaps set a new record in having been kicked out of MIT's grad program following which she gets an internship with the FBI and quickly makes what any junior-high kid would know to be a career-ending personal boo-boo. Moreover, this was clearly targeted at an audience of computer geeks so if you're not familiar with the techniques of computer coding and hacking, you won't appreciate the plot's twists and turns. The Patterson name alone, let alone a probable contract that gives the publisher first-refusal of his "manuscripts" so long as they don't reject any, in which case he gets to select a new publisher, virtually guarantees at least a second volume. Don't waste your time. Read Daniel Silva instead.

Reads like a bad script submitted by smgop on June 14, 2021, 11:30am I was disappointed by this book. The plot had potential, but was too improbable.