Day One

Day One by Nate Kenyon tells the story of John Hawke, a hacker/journalist.  Hawke is in New York City working on an interview with a reclusive tech genius (is there any other kind in suspense type novels?) when things start to malfunction.  Soon anything with a network connection is misbehaving in ways that have fatal consequences and John and a band of refugees are fleeing through the city, trying to escape harm & hoping to figure out what is going on.  I can’t say much more plot wise without spoiling things so I’ll leave it there.

The book was interesting and I found it compelling enough to finish.  I kept stumbling over how stupidly John (who is described as very, very smart) behaved.  He would miss very obvious clues.  The author should, perhaps, have worked a bit on plot staging so he wouldn’t be forced to make his main character come across as mentally challenged.  Still I would recommend this to people who like a good “end of the world” tale.