Here's my review:
Pursuit is a delving, gripping read. Dimity Pond is a very clever computer hacker running from the law. But that is the least of her problems...
From page one the reader is drawn into a web of intrigue that this author weaves so well, intertwining the remnants of IRA hostility with the Global Financial Crisis and the fall of the English banking system. Only Dimity has the ability to save it. But who can she trust? Having been left high and dry by her husband, stalked by Nemesis and kept in Lord Richard's sights she feels she's better off on her own. But Richard has other ideas. He's a Lord with a Special Forces background, has built a network recovery system in a Bunker and lives with an injury that makes him vulnerable at times and all the more appealing. He's my kind of hero!
The twists and turns in the story keep the reader riveted to the end resembling a Robert Ludlum or Lee Childs book except the hero is a heroine.
Blurb
Legendary hacker, Dimity Pond, is on the run
from the law.
Her landlord’s sold her home, her money has
disappeared along with her two-timing husband, a cyber-terrorist named Nemesis
is forcing her to wreak havoc with a nasty virus and she's developing a vile
migraine.
Six years ago, Nemesis framed Dimity for the
collapse of one of Europe's biggest banks. The money was never found, and the
bank's failure caused untold damage to its customers. She's been living under
the radar ever since. The only way she can clear her name and live a normal
life is to uncover Nemesis's identity, but he's always one step ahead.
Since Lord Richard Summerhayes left the Special
Forces he's built the best disaster-recovery network in the world, known as The
Bunker. Banks, militaries, airports and other major systems around the world
rely on him as the last unshakeable digital fortress in the face of disaster.
Richard has been keeping an eye on his neighbor who has a dubious hacking past.
He doesn't like hackers, and when someone nukes his network with an intriguing
new virus he knows exactly who to blame. But when he confronts her, he gets a
whole lot more than he bargained for.
When Nemesis commits an unthinkable act of
terrorism, the last hope is an encrypted file that only Dimity can crack. Will
Nemesis manipulate Dimity into helping him wipe out the world's biggest
financial center? Or can Richard and Dimity take Nemesis down once and for all?
Excerpt
“Oh Sarah Easton ——” A cold digital voice mocked her. “It’s about to begin. Send the virus.”
Cold horror washed
over Dimity. She jabbed the phone’s off button and dropped it on the table.
A noise, the rough
grate of wood on metal, startled her. Numbers curled across her mind as a
migraine inched closer.
“It’s the stove.” She
spoke out loud, to break the quiet.
Beau – the labrador –
cozy and content at the base of the wood-burning stove, continued to sleep as
if he’d spent the morning chasing rabbits.
Which he hadn’t.
Unless bacon was
involved, Beau never ran.
The silence of the
house closed back around her.
She scooped up the
phone, hesitating, waiting, and hoping the suffocating dread would dissipate.
It didn’t. Then she hooked the handset back into its base, flicked open the
dishwasher and unloaded the dirty cups and glasses she’d stacked there in a
rare burst of domesticity that morning.
Someone hammered on
the front door. A thick white mug, with the faded words Nerd Girl on it,
slipped from her fingers, bounced off the side of the dishwasher door and
shattered into a thousand pieces on the floor.
Jake? It couldn’t be
him. He had a key and was in the south of France. But no one ever came to
visit, she made sure of it.
The person hammered again.
“Shit,” she muttered.
“This stupid life.”
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/pursuit/id659158185?mt=11
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Here's where you'll find Caitlyn:
http://www.caitlynnicholas.com
http://www.caitlynnicholas.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/CaitlynNicholas
https://www.facebook.com/CaitlynNicholasAuthor
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105412279044420141735/
Book Links:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D8MYCTM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D8MYCTM
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/pursuit/id659158185?mt=11
http://momentumbooks.com.au/books/pursuit-2/
Author bio
Caitlyn Nicholas began
writing in 2005. Exhausted, pregnant and coping with a demanding toddler, she
decided the time was right to embark on a writing career.
To her family's
eternal startlement she is now the author of five novels and a short story.
Her debut novel - and
the first manuscript she had ever written - Running Scared, was published in
2007. This was followed by Secret Intentions in 2009, The Danger Game in 2012
and, Drive Me To Distraction, also in 2012.
Her next novel, Pursuit, will be out in August 2013.
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