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The IRIS Algorithm
"You live in blissful ignorance. I live on the edge of informed insanity." -- Simone Dancing
Simone’s earliest memories were numbers. She was born a mathematical savant. After being struck by lightning at age eight, she became something else. The keeper of God's own secret.
Thirty difficult years have passed since that terrible day when she was enlightened and her little brother was killed. She left the basement skunk works of the Puzzle Palace - the NSA - where her gift was almost useful. She left her husband, Logan, for his own good and after learning he was a highly specialized CIA operator. She left the harsh noise of the real world for a quiet vacation in a mental institution. She left her old name behind in favor of a new one and started a new life in sunny California.
For a decade it seemed to be working. Then they kidnapped her son. They demanded the IRIS Algorithm—the product of a long shuttered NSA project, whose former researchers have been recently dying of tragic accidents. With nowhere left to turn, Simone must convince her estranged husband that while she may be crazy, it doesn't mean she's wrong.
In a story that weaves its way through the basement technology projects of the NSA, to the subterranean dungeons of a dangerous organization, involving twisted conspiracy between nation states and their pawns, we discover what a mother will do to save her son—even if it means breaking her covenant with God, the end of secrets and the end of the civilized world.
Simone’s earliest memories were numbers. She was born a mathematical savant. After being struck by lightning at age eight, she became something else. The keeper of God's own secret.
Thirty difficult years have passed since that terrible day when she was enlightened and her little brother was killed. She left the basement skunk works of the Puzzle Palace - the NSA - where her gift was almost useful. She left her husband, Logan, for his own good and after learning he was a highly specialized CIA operator. She left the harsh noise of the real world for a quiet vacation in a mental institution. She left her old name behind in favor of a new one and started a new life in sunny California.
For a decade it seemed to be working. Then they kidnapped her son. They demanded the IRIS Algorithm—the product of a long shuttered NSA project, whose former researchers have been recently dying of tragic accidents. With nowhere left to turn, Simone must convince her estranged husband that while she may be crazy, it doesn't mean she's wrong.
In a story that weaves its way through the basement technology projects of the NSA, to the subterranean dungeons of a dangerous organization, involving twisted conspiracy between nation states and their pawns, we discover what a mother will do to save her son—even if it means breaking her covenant with God, the end of secrets and the end of the civilized world.
382 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 8, 2015
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May 28, 2018
Among one of the best, and on par with the slickest of Techno-Thrillers I have read this year. Fast paced, smart, riveting... an alphabet soup of mathematical, and of course, technical aspects. The IRIS Algorithm has espionage, murder, religion, and sex. A roller-coaster of genre mashup.
This male author, quite effortlessly, pulls off writing for a complex female heroine, depicting, in great narrative, her relationship between her brilliant mind, her guilt and her sense of unworthiness. Yet, somehow, the reader fully understands that Simone is a strong woman. Bravo for pulling this off!
L.G. Van Huen leaves you wanting more. It was hard to come to grips with the fact that I had come to the end of the book. Can't wait for the second one. This is sure to become a movie.
Fasten your seat belts, you're in for a spellbinding ride!
This male author, quite effortlessly, pulls off writing for a complex female heroine, depicting, in great narrative, her relationship between her brilliant mind, her guilt and her sense of unworthiness. Yet, somehow, the reader fully understands that Simone is a strong woman. Bravo for pulling this off!
L.G. Van Huen leaves you wanting more. It was hard to come to grips with the fact that I had come to the end of the book. Can't wait for the second one. This is sure to become a movie.
Fasten your seat belts, you're in for a spellbinding ride!
March 3, 2019
Good story. I like more techno in my techno-thrillers.
March 7, 2016
"Simone always told the truth, but you had to listen very carefully. She told truth with such precision that you tended to fill in your own lies to round off the conversation."
This was a fast, edgy and exciting story. People who can calculate where bullets are going to go are quite popular in these sort of things but that wasn't the way this one went. I wasn't too sure about the whole God angle, but even not having all the answers the action kept me reading and the potential future directions will ensure I pick up another if there is one. I wasn't too impressed with the depravities and I found the repetition of people's heights slightly off-putting, but those are small complaints in such a different take on a familiar and overcrowded genre.
This was a fast, edgy and exciting story. People who can calculate where bullets are going to go are quite popular in these sort of things but that wasn't the way this one went. I wasn't too sure about the whole God angle, but even not having all the answers the action kept me reading and the potential future directions will ensure I pick up another if there is one. I wasn't too impressed with the depravities and I found the repetition of people's heights slightly off-putting, but those are small complaints in such a different take on a familiar and overcrowded genre.
January 17, 2016
Pretty good.
Kept moving and good character development. Some grammatical errors that need corrected. It had a pretty good story line. Ok
Kept moving and good character development. Some grammatical errors that need corrected. It had a pretty good story line. Ok
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