The God's Eye View
Written by Barry Eisler
Narrated by Barry Eisler
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Knowledge is power…and they know everything.
NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe.
Evelyn Gallagher doesn’t care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA’s camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash.
But when Evelyn discovers the existence of an NSA program code-named God’s Eye, and connects it with the mysterious deaths of a string of journalists and whistle-blowers, her doubts put her and Dash in the crosshairs of a pair of government assassins: Delgado, a sadistic bomb maker and hacker; and Manus, a damaged giant of a man who until now has cared for nothing beyond protecting the director.
Within an elaborate game of political blackmail, terrorist provocations, and White House scheming, a global war is being fought—a war between those desperate to keep the state’s darkest secrets and those intent on revealing them. A war that Evelyn will need all her espionage training and savvy to survive. A war in which the director has the ultimate informational advantage: The God’s Eye View.
Barry Eisler
Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan Judo Institute along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller, have been included in numerous “Best of” lists, have been translated into nearly twenty languages, and include the #1 bestseller Livia Lone. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when he’s not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Learn more at www.barryeisler.com.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A thought-provoking espionage thriller based on fact (The 18 pages after the story gives details on what governments do in the name of national security). The NSA has a program called God’s Eye and the Director will go to any means to keep it a secret, even killing his own employees. This is one fast paced story that is predictable to some degree. There are some twists, but nothing surprising. What I enjoyed is that he kept the story flowing and the characters exciting enough to make it a worthwhile book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5He is a great author and this is one of his best books
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/53.5 starsIf you're a conspiracy theorist or techie, this book is for you. It's full of political intrigue & warnings of the scary results of power that ends up in the wrong hands. Long passages describe covert government programs & everyone speaks in acronyms.What's missing for me in the human element. Characters, with one exception, are one dimensional & flat. Anders, the director of the NSA is bad. Evie, his terrified employee who know too much is good. I found it difficult to connect with & believe in their portrayals which was surprising as I'm a huge fan of this author's John Rain books that are full of well developed & fascinating characters. The exception is Manus, a damaged man whose back story & evolution kept me reading.So it really depends on your personal preference. If you're into high tech thrillers instead of character driven suspense, this is for you.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm getting rid of my cell phone. Ha ha! Great book!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a really interesting book, with a lot of characters that are now embedded in my brain. There are some very evil people presented here. Delgado is one of the most sadistic killers I have read in awhile, and Manus is one of the most sympathetic killers. I was definitely rooting for Manus and Evie. The ending was in some ways satisfying, and in others not so much. I was left with the feeling that although the players may change, the game of government remains the same.
I received a free ARC from NetGalley - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If the name Snowden means anything to you, then you should enjoy this book. Lots of conspiracy and paranoia, and none of it far removed from reality. It did take a fair amount of suspension of disbelief to accept that one of the principal characters could be as far around the bend as he was and not be called to account for it long before this story even begins, but that’s really my only major complaint about this one. A fun read for geeks like me.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I wanted to try something different and this sounded good. But it's not. It's painful to read. I don't understand the lingo, I can't keep track of who's who. I'm not interested so I'm not remembering anything. I hate not finishing a book but I can't read any more of this. DNF @ 19%.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Barry Eisler is back, yeah! I am a big fan of his John Rain series so I was excited to get my hands on and read his latest book. Eisler departs from the John Rain saga to introduce us to a tapestry of intrigue, technology, and government skullduggery. The story revolves around a young woman, a reporter, and the government assassins trying to thwart them from exposing questionable government actions. Our government has developed the ultimate (or perhaps I should say, the penultimate) surveillance system, tracking every phone call, e-mail, and internet query in order to "save America from the bad guys." A young woman, who works for the NSA, discovers misuse of this data and engages the help of a reporter in order to expose the malfeasance. The NSA wants to keep her quiet and stop the reporter from exposing their system. The game is on!Eisler's knowledge of spy craft and government intrigue keeps the story soaring along. His character development, story pacing, and plot development are excellent. While reading the story you may find yourself looking over your shoulder thinking of the Snowden incident and worry that many of the tactics and ideas are extracted from real life. If you are looking for a book with action, great characters, and a solid story line, plus a book that will make you stop and consider what our government is capable of in the name of "protection," I highly recommend Eisler's, "The God's Eye View."
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyable story that reminded me, in some ways, of old-style Robert Ludlum where the bad guys are often government officials (or affiliated with government) seeking to do their version of "good". At times, Eisler got a bit too preachy about his political views (especially his practical deification of Edward Snowden and those who helped him), but the politics were usually closely tied to the story and didn't (usually) feel like Eisler was trying to bash readers over the head (the way, say, that Brad Thor does in his thrillers).Once again, Eisler hit a homerun in his use and depiction of characters with disabilities, finding ways to bring them into the story but not make the story necessarily about their disability. Giving one "bad guy" a disability was also an interesting choice, though a few times I wondered how that character's disability might adversely affect his performance of certain tasks.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'm surprised by my lackluster feelings for this book. I was looking forward to reading it. The topic - our government's increasing surveillance on private citizens and our loss of privacy - is of great interest and importance to me. But, honestly, I varied between bored and irritated through much of this story.My problem begins with the characters. To me, they were all stereotypes; the megalomaniac boss, the damaged killer, the insecure single mother. None of them surprised me at all. More than that, though, was the lack of emotion. I didn't feel the dramatic intensity these characters' stories should have provided. Then came the overwhelming detail. We have excessive information on espionage, computer surveillance, public cameras, weapon types and uses, etc. While these details are vital for an author to know in order to tell a story well, it's not necessary for all of that detail to go into the book. Then we have backstories on some of the characters, along with lots of situational setups, which, surprisingly, doesn't add much to the characters' depth and still gave me no emotional connection. For instance, we have several pages of a baseball game just to set up a place for two characters to meet. The setup could have been done in a paragraph of two, without making me sit through a game. From the often dull, mostly predictable, not particularly believable characters that had me falling asleep, suddenly we'd shift into intense, graphically violent scenes that had me wide-eyed with a shot of adrenaline. These actions scenes are clearly where the author excels. Though I have to say that some of the 'bad guys' were portrayed as complete idiots. For me, there was a total disconnect between the mechanical behavior of the characters, the violent action, and the controversial subject matter. The experience was like watching a war play out on a chess board.In the end, the volume of detail and story execution didn't work as a fictional story, at least not for my taste. I'm more inclined to look for this sort of thing in nonfiction. Clearly, given this book's popularity, I'm in the minority. *I received an ebook copy from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.*