A thorough page-turner…
Set in San Francisco, Gerdes’s latest thriller vividly explores the devastating effects of technology. A leading pharmaceutical company comes under fire after several people die because of tainted drugs. When Austin Marks, the head of Mark Communications, steps in for damage control and focuses her attention to a software firm as being responsible for the mistake, she finds herself entangled in a conspiracy of global proportions. With the blame shifting on the software firm, the stakes rise, and Austin’s personal life comes under scrutiny as an investigative journalist sets on to unravel her past. Gerdes is masterfully skilled at building up anticipation and tension. She handles Austin’s interactions with her clients and a love interest with an assured authority to equate her public relation expertize. The traumatic incidents in Austin’s past are revealed gradually, and her character is ripe with all the vulnerability of a flesh-and-blood human being despite her practical, spunky persona. High on anticipation, tension, and suspense, this novel deserves readers’ attention.
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