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    Reaper
    Reaper
    Reaper
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Reaper

    Written by Ben Mezrich

    Narrated by Stephen Lang

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich, a fast-paced techno-thriller about a biological virus that spreads electronically.

    In Boston, nine lawyers on a conference call suddenly convulse with pain, turn chalk white, and die. In Vermont, a young woman watching her favorite sitcom meets the same grisly fate, as does a group of sewer workers in Washington, D.C. Whatever has killed these people is spreading fast, and the task of eradicating it falls to young virologist Samantha Craig and paramedic Nick Barnes, whose brilliant surgical career was ruined by a crippling hand injury.

    When Nick and Samantha discover that the virus, named Reaper, is spread through TVs and PCs, they realize that the information superhighway will become a killing field, with tens of millions dead, unless they can root Reaper out.

    Their search employs a dazzling array of real-life wizardry, from Mylar body paint to Stealth helicopters to CIA-bred swarms of insects. At the core of Reaper’s madness, they find a suavely megalomaniacal, up-from-the-slums, high-tech billionaire, an icily ingenious hacker, and a high-powered cabal that will do anything to save the world from technology, even if that means annihilating the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2006
    ISBN9780061140679
    Reaper
    Author

    Ben Mezrich

    Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. He has published twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network, and Bringing Down the House, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies in twelve languages and became the basis for the Kevin Spacey movie 21. Mezrich has also published the national bestsellers Sex on the Moon, Ugly Americans, Rigged, and Busting Vegas. He lives in Boston.

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    • 4/5
      Written back in the day when most everyone was still on dial-up for access to the internet and Y2K was looming over the horizon, Reaper must have seemed like a well-written Crichton thriller. The pacing is good, the characters believable and you keep turning the pages. The information super-highway is here now, but in this book you wish it would take a detour.