There is good news and bad news about Cyberionage by Michael
P. Elias. The good news is that the plot was mostly good. The bad news, there
were large sections of the novel that felt amateurish. Given the title, I
expected to read about technical details of cyberspace, and I definitely got
that – not that I understood all of it. But, cyberspace geeks are not known for
their endearing human qualities, and Elias’ protagonoist, Moti Kidron, was not
different than that, so he was a difficult figure to connect to. Emotionally,
he was flat. He was impressive intellectually, and his courage was remarkable.
Like so many of the heroes that we favorably review, Moti was absolute in his
morals and a rebel to his authority figures, and he took remarkable risks to
defend his way of thinking. It is Kidron alone who prevents WWIII from breaking out, by infiltrating every important military security system in the world, and ordering the President of the U.S. what to do in the midst of this near nuclear crisis – but was it a believable story? In the end, something was missing, and the
author does not get my recommendation.
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