This was a fun, well paced book. The women in the series (Saji, Marissa, Jen) have a very small role, but this is mostly because the villain is... you guessed it... female! On the minus side, she's stereotypical enough that it gets annoying. On the plus side, she's smart, a very good shot, and mostly successful.

After a couple of military bases are hit by a group of mercenaries who seem to know all the security details and codes, Jay Gridley discovers that the military specs for the bases were incorporated into a widely distributed game, and the results of successful attempts to penetrate the bases in the game were relayed back to the owner. This is actually pretty clever, and the book stays fast-paced and interesting. There is the usual excess of romance and children that Perry puts into these books, but I like that stuff, so it worked for me. :)

Oddly enough, Thorn resigns at the end of this one, and speculates that Gridley and Kent are on their way out, too, suggesting that this might have been the last Net Force book. That would be a shame -- they were really fun. I hope there are more on the way!