Man overboard : an Ali Reynolds / J.A. Jance.
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- ISBN: 9781501110801
- Physical Description: 337 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Touchstone, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2017 March #1
A shipboard tragedy is prologue to a deadly cyberduel.Roger McGeary enjoys being a hero. Having transformed himself from a perpetual outsider, computer geek, and inmate of a mental hospital to the computer genius who prevented a massive data breach, he's now basking in four-star service during the luxury cruise that's been his reward. It doesn't matter that he can barely tie a bow tie when he has a butler to do it for him. The butler is the first to realize that sometime after a dress ball, Roger jumped or fell off the ship. Investigators call it death by misadventure, but his auntâthe one relative he has leftâisn't convinced. Seeking help in proving Roger was murdered, she approaches High Noon Enterprises, an Arizona-based cybersecurity business, because Roger's one friend from high school, Stuart Rameyâanother lonely misfit who found his true calling in computer wizardryâis the behind-the-scenes star of High Noon. Stu's sympathetic employers, B. Simp son and Ali Reynolds, agree to help him and his friend's aunt by taking the case. They don't know that Owen Hansen, a recluse who's been obsessed with suicide ever since his father killed himself, is using a psychotherapist's hacked patient data to target others whose parents took their own lives. Calling himself Odin and relying on his consort, an intricate networked AI system he's dubbed Frigg, Owen's already started tormenting his next victim. But he reckons without the combined expertise of High Noon, especially the determined Stu, in a stop-and-start tale of high tech, complex psychological case histories, and the occasional diversion into Ali's hiring issues with her domestic help. Jance (Random Acts, 2016, etc.) can't seem to keep out of her own way or avoid sidelining the supposed heroine in this 15th franchise installment. But the character who does take the lead deserves to keep it, and the ending helps make up for the cumbersome plot. Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 October #2
Genius software engineer Roger McGeary is celebrating his 40th birthday with a fancy cruise when he plummets to his death from his stateroom's balcony. Suicide? That's what everyone but his strong-willed maiden aunt thinks. To get some answers, she turns to series stalwart Ali Reynolds. With a national tour.. Copyright 2016 Library Journal. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 January #5
Stu Ramey, a "brilliant software guy with the social skills of an onion," takes a lead role in bestseller Jance's imaginative 12th Reynolds thriller (after 2016's
Copyright 2017 Publisher Weekly.Claw Back ). Ramey is second-in-command at High Noon Enterprises, a cybersecurity firm owned by Ali and her husband, B. Simpson, in Cottonwood, Ariz. When Roger McGeary, a boyhood friend of Ramey's employed by another cyber- security company in California, jumps to his death off a cruise ship into the English Channel, McGeary's aunt turns to Ramey for answers. It turns out that the ship's owner, genius Owen Hansen, whose father committed suicide, is targeting other children of suicides such as McGeary. While Ali handles interviews, Ramey tracks the online footprints of Hansen, who calls himself Odin, and Frigg, Hansen's "all-knowing artificial intelligence sidekick and companion," to whom Jance imputes nearly human characteristics. Frigg becomes a major player as Hansen and the folks at High Noon race to a climactic showdown.Agent: Alice Volpe, Northwest Literary Agency. (Mar.)