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    Crux
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    Audiobook11 hours

    Crux

    Written by Richard Aellen

    Narrated by David Colacci

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    About this audiobook

    His name was carved in the black marble of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He'd been reported lost in a helicopter shot down by the Vietcong. Only he hadn't been in that helicopter when it crashed. And he wasn't dead. Instead he'd spent 20 years in a Vietcong prison after being betrayed by three men - one of them his best friend.

    During 20 years of almost total darkness in a rat-infested cell, Keith Johnson has had time to plan. So, like a ghost, he has returned to even the score. He has no intention of killing his betrayers; he wants to ruin their lives like they ruined his.

    Johnson's elaborate plan is meant to cause the three to self-destruct, and given their characters, it ought to be easy. But his scheme goes haywire with consequences he neither foresees nor wants. Crux is a story of revenge gone too far, an audiobook full of hair-raising excitement.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 11, 2008
    ISBN9781423358534
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    • 3/5
      Not an engaging as the first book, but the premise of Nexus still engages the reader. There was quite simply too much in the way of action sequences in this book that made it like a bad Clive Cussler book in many ways.
    • 4/5
      Nexus 5, a drug that enables humans to enhance their brains and become networked with other users has been out there for six months now. As the numbers of users increases the USA sees this as its greatest threat, especially as the Post Human Liberation Front is taking over the minds of users ands sending them on assignation attempts to kill the president

      As people start to use the drug for good and bad, Kade, the architect of Nexus, starts to avenge those that have enslaved others through the back doors that he put into the code. Kade is on the run too. He is being hunted by the CIA, black ops and others who want to use that power for their own ends. In America, one man close to the president starts to see that what they are doing to stop the spread of Nexus is morally abhorrent, in particular the way that they purge the substance from adults and children. The plot builds to a thrilling ending

      I really enjoyed this sequel. It is a really fast paced sci-fi thriller, set 25 years into the future, with plausible technology and that little extra that takes it over the edge. If I had one gripe, I thought that the characters were a little two dimensional, as more effort had been put into the multi threaded plot, but that is a small thing really.
    • 5/5
      This is just as amazing as the book before it. The tech is super cool, sure, but the book also explores the societal implications of the Nexus technology in a whole bunch of directions -- this is science fiction at its best. There are a whole bunch of POV characters, and it's a bit tricky at first to follow all the plot threads, but they all have satisfying character arcs and it comes together nicely. I look forward to reading the next book in the series!