Hard Rain, Andy Waddell
Hard Rain, Andy Waddell
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Hard Rain

Author: Andy Waddell

Narrator: Andy Waddell

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2024


Synopsis

Franc Sousa's life is virtually perfect. In a future San Francisco, where the most important determination of success is the quality of the computer chip inserted in your nervous system, Franc has the best. His chip provides him instant access to all the information and entertainment the world has ever produced, and to a virtual game environment that feels more real than his actual life. It has also helped him develop his coding skills to a level where his future employment for the V.T.B., the company that runs everything, is assured. Even more important, chippers like him, less than 1% of the population, never experience pain, or sadness, or rage for longer than a minute at a time. And they never get sick: Franc expects to live hundreds of years, perhaps forever.  But when an accident dislodges his chip, he begins to question everything he's ever known. He can't accept the doctor's explanation that the beautiful girl he saw after his accident was only a hallucination. When his longing for the girl of his vision spirals into a depression that lasts for weeks, Franc refuses to tell anyone that his chip is malfunctioning. He does not want to be fixed.  Instead, he embarks on a grand experiment to discover what is really real: he takes an old razor and gouges out his chip. What he discovers, the dystopian world of brutality and oppression experienced by the vast majority, sickens him. He ends up abandoning his life of privilege and joins a band of hackers intent on destroying the matrix of computer systems upon which the tyranny depends. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ed on August 24, 2016

After 180 pages or so of stop and go reading, I finally finished this third book in David Rollins excellent military thriller series and I'm glad I did. Special Agents Cooper and Masters investigating the murder/dismemberment of the US Air Force attache in Turkey. As Cooper and Masters maneuver thro......more

Goodreads review by Suspense Magazine on March 21, 2010

When first introduced to “Hard Rain”—the latest installment to the Vin Cooper series—I had no idea what to expect. Assuming that the book was going to be a typical military thriller was a huge mistake on my part. I never imagined that from the first few pages I would become glued to the book, racing......more

Goodreads review by Dan on May 27, 2018

"As a special investigator for the U.S. Air Force, Vin Cooper thought he’d seen it all. But even he can’t believe his eyes this time. Colonel Emmet Portman, U.S. air attaché to Turkey, wasn’t simply murdered in his Istanbul residence. He was carefully dismembered, his body parts laid out like an exp......more

Goodreads review by Tan on January 16, 2019

funny and lots of action......more

Goodreads review by Martin on September 11, 2018

Another good page turner from Rollins. Similar genre to Knife's edge. Vin Cooper is Jack Reacher with more humour, more of a womaniser but gets results.......more