#Review: INTERFERENCE by Brad Parks

  5 of 5 stars
Another spell-binding roller coaster of a story from Brad Parks! Quantum physicist Matt Bronik believes he's on the cusp of some ground breaking research in quantum mechanics, but when he starts to develop mysterious and puzzling seizures, doctors have no idea what's wrong with him. Could his research with a particular virus be the cause? When Matt goes missing after another seizure, veteran detective Emmett Webster is assigned the case when it was just a missing person case. With each day that passes, the case becomes more complicated and the suspects multiply in what is now a kidnapping case. What Emmett can't figure out is why Matt was kidnapped, but he's determined to find him and won't give up even if he has to fight the DOD and the federal agents.

There is a lot of quantum mechanics discussed in this story, but Mr. Parks breaks it down for the average reader to understand. If you enjoy science and physics in particular, this book will delight you. With the POV switching between Matt's wife, the detective and a billionaire, there's a lot to absorb in the book. The beginning of the story is a little dry as the stage is set, but events soon ramp up and I couldn't put the book down to find out what happened. Who had orchestrated this kidnapping and why was the DOD so intent of keeping Matt's lab under lock and key?

I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy and all opinions are my own.
Blurb: Brigid Bronik is worried about her husband Matt, a quantum physicist at Dartmouth College. He’s excited about some groundbreaking, secret research he’s undertaken, but at the same time, he’s been suffering from bizarre, violent seizures that have no medical explanation. He thinks they’re unrelated to his work, but acknowledges he doesn’t fully understand the potential dangers of pushing certain quantum boundaries. In the midst of another seizure at the lab, Matt disappears, and all clues indicate that he’s been abducted. Suspects abound—jealous colleagues, Chinese competitors, an unscrupulous billionaire, and even the Department of Defense. Brigid, who has otosclerosis, which is gradual but almost complete hearing loss, won’t let her physical challenges get in the way of finding out what happened to her husband. And she soon comes to realize the very science that was making her husband sick may also be the key to his salvation.
Quantum entanglement. Mutated viruses. Medically inexplicable seizures. Science is one of the stars of INTERFERENCE, and Parks skillfully turns complex scientific concepts into grounded, understandable, and even thrilling aspects of this storyline that will enthrall readers.
Author bio: Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been published in fifteen languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major prepublication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with the Washington Post and the Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey). He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-age children. A former college a cappella singer and community-theater enthusiast, Brad has been known to burst into song whenever no one was thoughtful enough to muzzle him. His favored writing haunt is a Hardee’s restaurant, where good-natured staff members suffer his presence for many hours a day, and where he can often be found working on his next novel.
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