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A Near-Future Conspiracy Thriller #1-3
Lost In America
Book One contains Episodes 1-3...
...It's the near future, and the next big thing is already here. Smartphones, tablets, even TVs have been replaced by Butler watches, your own digital personal assistant who knows you intimately.
Billed by genius-inventor Jeff Meyers as "luxury for the little guy," your Butler knows your clothing sizes, your favorite pizza toppings, the music you like. Anything you want will be ordered for you at your command. In the early stages of a heart attack? Your Butler detects it, calls for help, and saves your life. In short, your Butler is your very best friend, always there for you--waiting, watching, listening. It knows everything about you ... but so does the company behind it.
That's where the danger comes in.
Meet Kendra Sinclair. She'd be the first to tell you there's nothing special about her, until a near-death experience leaves her with a special ability to see puzzle pieces of a frightening future. She uncovers a massive conspiracy that, if successful, will kill millions of people, including the people she loves most.
Kendra's the only one who can stop it--unless the bad guys stop her first, which means she needs to get Lost In America. But how can she, when privacy is just an illusion?
"With today’s technology, there’d be no hiding for the Jews....Irrefutable proof of one’s Jewishness is embedded in one’s DNA, you know. Maybe we shouldn’t rush to have that fact stored in a database somewhere."
-- Governor Rhodes, Lost In America
...It's the near future, and the next big thing is already here. Smartphones, tablets, even TVs have been replaced by Butler watches, your own digital personal assistant who knows you intimately.
Billed by genius-inventor Jeff Meyers as "luxury for the little guy," your Butler knows your clothing sizes, your favorite pizza toppings, the music you like. Anything you want will be ordered for you at your command. In the early stages of a heart attack? Your Butler detects it, calls for help, and saves your life. In short, your Butler is your very best friend, always there for you--waiting, watching, listening. It knows everything about you ... but so does the company behind it.
That's where the danger comes in.
Meet Kendra Sinclair. She'd be the first to tell you there's nothing special about her, until a near-death experience leaves her with a special ability to see puzzle pieces of a frightening future. She uncovers a massive conspiracy that, if successful, will kill millions of people, including the people she loves most.
Kendra's the only one who can stop it--unless the bad guys stop her first, which means she needs to get Lost In America. But how can she, when privacy is just an illusion?
"With today’s technology, there’d be no hiding for the Jews....Irrefutable proof of one’s Jewishness is embedded in one’s DNA, you know. Maybe we shouldn’t rush to have that fact stored in a database somewhere."
-- Governor Rhodes, Lost In America
290 pages, Paperback
First published June 4, 2015
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September 20, 2015
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Most of the books I read are series books were there is an underlying story-line or theme that plays throughout the series and has a mystery or two played out within each book. This book contains the first three episodes (like a television series) of a series set in the non-distant future. A future that is getting closer every day. Life hinges on how the world uses new technology that replaces common things like out cell phones and televisions. Picture Apple’s new smart watch or a smarter television that knows your entire life, from the food you like to your blood type, what you said to your kids this morning to who visited your house. Technology that leaves what the NSA has on us to shame. What happens when all the information falls into the wrong hands. Hands that want to control the world’s destiny.
All I could say when I finished Episode 3 was “wow, Wow, WOW!” Get me Episode 4! It is out and is calling to me! These stories are quite addicting. I found once I started reading I couldn’t stop. At first I was cursing Laura Fitzgerald and then I was thinking this is pretty genius. This type of story is going to interest everyone from teenagers to senior citizens. With the content it gives us some things some of us may see if our lifetimes and for the older folks it was something they have been predicting for years. With this format some may wait until all the episodes are released and binge read like they binge watch television series on Netflix and others will grab each exciting episode as it comes out and wait with wondrous anticipation for the next installment.
Some may think this book is too Sci-Fi, which I rarely read, and I am here to tell you it is not. This is close enough to current time that is reads like a suspense thriller. Written is the episodic format the suspense continues to build and build and build. I truly am looking forward to each and every new release because I quickly became engaged and Kendra is an leading character that should grab everyone’s attention.
I was given the first 3 episodes bundled together for review and they can be purchased that way. If you are not sure if this story is for you but you want to check it out the episodes can all be purchased separately and the first episode is just 99 cents.
This is totally different than anything else I have written by this author. She has me completely hooked. She releases the episodes almost as soon as they are finished. She is going to have readers begging her to write faster.
June 21, 2015
Fans of author Laura Fitzgerald will find themselves 'lost' in this book, and unable to put it down. While a different type of genre than Fitzgerald's other novels, LOST IN AMERICA is an engrossing, heart-pounding, episodic story of suspense that tackles an issue which could very well be facing all of us in the not-too-distant future: voluntary surrender of our rights to privacy which results in the use of 'killer' technology used against us. LOST IN AMERICA is an on-going series being written in real-time, Fitzgerald has definitely captured my interest. On to buy and read Book Four...
May 26, 2015
2015 Book Challenge: A book published this year. Loved it! I'm looking forward to reading the next episodes.
June 26, 2015
All I can say, with no spoilers, is this: Thank God I decided to read this before grad school started up in the fall!! SO addicting - I wouldn't have been able to juggle it all!
Reading Lost In America has been just like binging on a great Netflix series. Laura - you've done it yet again :)
Reading Lost In America has been just like binging on a great Netflix series. Laura - you've done it yet again :)
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