When Diana Ripley discovers that a hacker has the ability to bring down America's financial system, she is determined to eliminate this shadowy figure, but the CIA's trap fails. As the agency tries to catch another lead, the cyberterrorist plunges the country into an even worse attack. Ripley and her team embark on a desperate search for the only people who know how to repair the damage - the ones responsible. Computers and communication network are down, there are looters in the street, and food supply is running out. Can Ripley catch this cyberterrorist before America descends irretrievably into chaos?
Like the author's prior work, The Last Code, The Fall is another two and a half hour audiobook that doesn’t pull any punches.
The setting of this story is more modern day where the COVID-19 pandemic is alive and well as is the United States troubled relations with some Middle Eastern countries.
Without giving too many spoilers away it was a story that made me think about the world, the role we play in it and the amount of man made structures we now consider our normal.