Total Power

Total Power by Kyle Mills

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


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Some comments I've seen suggest this isn't one of Kyle Mills better books. I have no grounds for comparison as this is the only one I've read; however, if his other books were better, they must have been spectacular because this was a great read. This is not a suspense novel or whodunit. You learn very quickly who the villain is and, shortly thereafter, who the hero is. It there were any character arcs they were so carefully hidden I never noticed them. This is a thriller pure and simple. The bad guys knock out the entire US power grid and, with the aid of a cyber attack, keep it down. Without power there industry shuts down as does transportation. Even aid from other countries is ineffective because modern docs are all mechanized. The days of people manually unloading ships is long gone. People are starving which leads to rioting, looting and gangs roaming empty streets. The global economy is in chaos. Our hero must find the villain and force from him the knowledge to rebuild. This doesn't happen in quite the manner you might expect, but, of course, it happens because this is a thriller, not a dystopian novel. If you like action, excitement, a first-class villain and the entire world hanging in the balance, this is the book for you.



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