The Veiled Web

Name: The Veiled Web
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Catherine Asaro
ISBN: 9781470840440

Author: Catherine Asaro

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer

Unabridged: 25 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/30/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the Internet, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. These two passions collide when a White House performance and reception leads to an encounter with handsome Moroccan businessman Rashid al-Jazari, creator of a brilliant technology that has set the Internet rumor mill ablaze. A second, seemingly chance meeting with Rashid plunges Lucia into a deadly world of desire and intrigue, for although his work has implications she cannot foresee, there are those who do understand and would turn its great power to their own destructive purposes. As Lucia is drawn deeper and deeper into Rashids life and work, cut off from the outside world, she finds herself becoming more attracted to him. But is her seclusion within Rashids well-guarded Moroccan home intended to ensure her safetyor her silence? And is it already too late to stop the terrible consequences his new technology could unleash?

About Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro, science fiction and fantasy author, grew up near Berkeley, California. She earned a PhD in chemical physics and an MA in physics, both from Harvard, and a BS with highest honors in chemistry from UCLA. The Quantum Rose won the 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and The Spacetime Pool won the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather ~*dread mushrooms*~ on May 17, 2022

I was prepared to compose a rant-review of this book, but the final couple of pages made me change my mind. A little. There will still be ranting! But with caveats! And some minor ***spoilers*** Okay, so this book was actually a little boring, so it's surprising that I even wanted to rant about it in......more

Goodreads review by Scott on April 28, 2014

I've read other Catherine Asaro books and have enjoyed them. In fact, she autographed one for me many years ago and I follow her on Twitter. So I was intrigued when I read the description of this book. However, it was pretty dull and I gave up after getting a quarter of the way through. Lucia, the f......more

Goodreads review by Joy on March 30, 2015

If an artificial intelligence can be reprogrammed to lose its conscience, is it really a sentient personality? This question means life and death to Lucia del Mar and Rashid al-Jazari, because a ruthless group is determined to capture their friend and computer program Zaki; they think it can help th......more

Goodreads review by Howard on September 02, 2020

4 Stars for The Veiled Web (audiobook) by Catherine Asaro read by Caroline Shaffer. The story is interesting but it’s feeling a little dated.......more