Dark End of the Spectrum
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DARK END OF SPECTRUM will make you reflect twice before turning on your cell phone or PDA! DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM is a frighteningly plausible, headline ripping tale of the real threats that loom in cyberspace based on the leader’s years of research into the hacker culture. DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM is a thriller that will connect with everyone with a cell phone, PDA or wireless contrivance. When digital terrorists known as ICER take over the US power grid and the cell phone network, they give the government an ultimatum – bomb the limits of Afghanistan and Pakistan with nuclear weapons to place an end to Al-Quada. When the government refuses,the group destroys most of the downed aircraft in several major airports. When ICER sends a pulse that will kill everyone on the East Coast, only security practiced Dan Riker can stop them, but ICER has kidnapped his family tree. Will Dan save his family tree or will millions die?
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This is the most dull over detailed piece of trash I have ever read. The ending is horrible. If you liked this book GOD help you. I was determined to give it every possible chance and did so to my own shock to the very end. If this is a right example of this authors works I for one will never read another. I was fooled by the reviews and doubt their authinticity.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a fascinating tale; a page turner. When I downloaded my 99 cent copy on my iPhone via a Kindle app, it was the first book I ever read as an ebook, so the book had two tests to pass – that of a new leader and theme area for this non-fiction reader; and that of being read on my iPhone. It passed both.
I loved the book. Loved the high tech landscape of the storyline – which I only partly understood, but didn’t have to fully know to follow the tale; it kept me intrigued. Loved the unexpected artistic details, phrases highlighting something gorgeous or pointing out a subtlety that made me respect the leader’s awareness. Loved the physicality of the tale – the descriptions of what sensations the characters veteran, like the burning in their legs as they ran for their lives. And I really loved the relationships.
The writing was so plain I felt like I was watching a movie. (It would make an exciting movie!)
PS The ending caught me by surprise. I wrestled with it, and am still wrestling with it. If I were telling a fellow softie about the book, I’d say, it’s a fantastic ride, delight in it, and maybe stop before the ending! (At least the ending comes at the very end!)
PPS I recommend reading the three reviews written previous to mine, as each is informative to a prospective reader in different ways.
PPPS It’s a fantastic read!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Dark End of the Spectrum is one of persons thrillers that no matter how late it gets you cannot place it down. The leader certainly knows and understands his equipment and his theme as it shows in the how the tale unfolds. Some of the words slowed me down as I’m not caught up on all the modern jargon but I quickly and easily figured it out and wasn’t distracted from the tale.
Dan Riker was written in such a way that all readers will like him and hope he succeeds in both defeating the threat of ICER and saving his family tree. The plot is rich in details, action, and leaves you on the edge of yor seat.
Mr. Policastro’s writing style reminds me of additional thrillers that I’ve read by the likes of Clancy and say that if a reader enjoys edge of their seat excitement, nail-biting drama, and wondering just how real this tale could be, then pick up either the Kindle version or a paperback. You won’t be disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
At 468 pages, Dark End of the Spectrum, by Anthony S. Policastro, felt rather long to me, but the pages turned quickly, even on a computer, and by the time the CIA arrived to take Dan away from his family tree on a sunny day off I was painstakingly hooked. I’m not sure what I’d have done then if my cell-phone had rung.
Dan understands equipment. He talks about Ultra Wide Band transmissions and 512 bit encryption, and I marvel how out of date I am. But he’s plausible and convincing when he describes the danger of secure networks being compromised by wireless devices. It’s certainly appealing to see how we might sacrifice security for simplicity, and then to be sideswiped by the thought that we might have sacrificed security in the name of avoiding terrorism too.
But the novel isn’t just about equipment gone wild. Dan has a wife and child and a home life too, and the up-down relationship of a marriage strained by work grounds the tale very accurately. The leader writes convincing dialog, and Amelia’s sudden rage as Dan leaves to help the CIA saddened me because of its plausibility. It did disappoint me that Dan so easily attributes her outburst to her period. But then…
Well, then the tale really takes off. DEWs and HSPs and additional acronyms abound, but the reader soon learns to speak the same language. Dan runs for his life, not knowing who to trust, while the whole world falls apart. Cars, helicopters and houses are ruined. People die, spectacularly. And, when the whole country is held to ransom, even the President gets involved.
Descriptive details and discussions slowed the tale down at times, but not enough to distract me from reading on. I stayed hunched over the computer late at night, wishing I had a paperback to carry to bed, but unable to stop reading. This is certainly a thrilling book for anyone who likes equipment, conspiracy, action and disaster; one to read when you’ve plenty of time to spare because you’ll not want to place it down. Your computer had better not be acting up and your cell-phone not be on the blink. And you’d better hope no one hacks into the power grid.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
When planes start dropping out of the sky and when people and their electronic equipment – computers and cellular phones – are baked and fried from a deadly energy pulse, the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, and the President of the United States learn they are helpless against their own equipment, which has been commandeered by a group of terrorists and turned against them. Lacking any plausible way for the government to prevent the terrorists from destroying the lives of millions of people on the East Coast – unless the government meets their demands – Dan Riker, a family tree man and an IT Security Practiced, finds himself in the middle of a technological war that will remind the reader of the many patriotic exploits of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. If you like Jack Ryan, you’ll like Dan Riker.
Policastro’s second novel, Dark End of the Spectrum, is a blockbuster of a tale, with nonstop action that will keep you turning the pages. You will be swept away not only by the nonstop action that is predictable of such authors as Tom Clancy, James Rollins, and Harlan Coben, you’ll be captivated by Dan Riker’s wife, Amelia, and his daughter, Kaileigh, who are abducted and held hostage by the terrorists to prevent Riker from helping the government. You will be reminded of one of the more classical and memorable lines of Bogart when he says to Bergman at the end of Casablanca: “The problem of three small people don’t mount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” And this is significant because Bogart expresses the same sentiments Riker feels throughout the tale, especially when he is forced to choose between saving the lives of millions of unsuspecting people or saving the lives of his beloved wife and daughter. Since reading Dark End of the Spectrum, I’ve regularly questioned myself how would I respond if I woke up one morning and establish myself facing a similar, undesirable situation or quandary as Dan Riker.
Making fascinating prose, a wrenching human drama, and nonstop action is not an simple feat for any writer to accomplish, but Policastro succeeds superbly. He manages to explicate in layman terms the intricate workings behind modern equipment, including PDAs, ultra wide band frequencies, heat seeking projectiles, direct energy weapons, direct energy pulses, global positioning systems, eye scans, computer chips with artificial intelligence, cellular phone equipment, and the Internet. You will be more than a small fascinated by the workings of the neural bracelet that Riker and Takara wear on their wrists to communicate lacking the help of words their inner thoughts, emotions, and desires to one another over distance.
Dan Riker will find his way out of several appealing and deadly situations. For instance, Policastro will have him trapped in a buried school bus with Jake Stone, a ex- CIA agent and IT practiced who will help Riker escape from the terrorists. Riker is also sent on a 150-mile trek across North Carolina to Wilmington in search of his wife and daughter, and falls into another trap. Your heart will be racing and pumping adrenaline as Riker narrowly escapes heat seeking projectiles, and cellular phones that are used by the terrorists to deliver deadly energy pulses.
Policastro describes Riker as a well-rounded American male, whose life may be described as normal, serene, and unchallenging. But, all of this changes when his family tree is abducted and he becomes obsessed with the thought of revenge and doing whatever it takes to get his wife and daughter safely back home. While driving back to Raleigh from Wilmington, he recalls how he had argued with Amelia at the end of what had begun as a pleasant day-trip to the beach, and he feels both guilt and remorse, as he looks across at the empty seat where Amelia would’ve been sitting if she hadn’t been abducted and if he hadn’t thought he was the only man who could stop the terrorist and save his country.
Policastro skillfully breaks up the pacing and rhythm of the action by introducing comic relief at crucial moments in the characters of Jeanine Braggloisi and Gary Stakhower. You will find their repartee to be comedic, delightful, and promising. It is a wonderful touch to a quick-paced tale.
The leader also brings into discussion major themes and conflicts that keenly differentiate between ancient and new equipment, and human and artificial intelligence. Happily for mankind, the leader makes a world in which human intelligence with all its flaws still has the mental wherewithal to outsmart the artificial intelligence it strove to make through computer silicon chips. It is the ancient equipment of radio vacuum tubes and the courage of Hildy Grummenweurkes that eventually outsmarts the artificial intelligence of the computer chip that was growing exponentially stronger or more intelligent with the passing of each day. The scale representing human intelligence on one side and artificial intelligence on the additional side is shifting. Riker, Friedheld, Sanchez, Motega, Bastille, Braggloisi, Stakhower, Taraka, Grummenweurkes and others are able to thwart or slow down the shift in balance, keeping it, for the moment, in favor of humanity. But, the leader has made us aware that a shift in balance is in the works, and that a day might arrive when the balance of power might shift in favor of artificial intelligence. If this should occur, will humanity becomes slaves of machines with privileged artificial intelligence? I don’t know. But, I am thankful that we have authors like Anthony Samuel Policastro who raise our awareness to these possibilities, and make appealing characters like Dan Riker who will strive to keep the balance of power in favor of humanity.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5