Hooked, Matt Richtel
Hooked, Matt Richtel
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Hooked
A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions

Author: Matt Richtel

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2007

Synopsis

From New York Times journalist and syndicated comic strip creator Matt Richtel, HOOKED is a visionary thriller for the digital era–and a novel about life, love, and high-tech intrigue on the Left Coast.

When medical journalist Nat Idle narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after receiving a mysterious note warning him to leave immediately, he becomes enmeshed in the most dangerous assignment of his life. Nat believes that the handwriting on the lifesaving note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist he has been obsessively mourning, and so begins a fevered quest to solve the mystery of his lost love. The journey forces him to confront the underbelly of the digital revolution and question his own sanity.
 
Matt Richtel’s first novel will leave you hooked at the end of every chapter. His thriller about love and other addictions is itself a compulsive reading experience, fueled by adrenaline and suspense and influenced by the pace and attitude of the Internet. It is a tour de force of romance and deception, and a haunting commentary on the impact new addictions are having on our lives.

About Matt Richtel

Matt Richtel is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on December 05, 2008

Better than talking to myself for 8 hours in car. How much better? If I'd had a sock puppet, the two would be dead even.......more

Goodreads review by Heather on April 07, 2009

set in silicon valley? a mystery about reporting, technical geekery and love? sign me up! these things must be the only reasons i kept reading. glimmers of humor helped too, but frankly, this story never got off the ground. it muddled its way to an unsatisfactory ending, so much that i flipped the la......more

Goodreads review by Murray on June 22, 2008

Matt came to Google last week and read from this book and explained some of his experience in writing his first novel. He produced a gripping thriller thoroughly set in the San Francisco Bay Area with obligatory trips to Palo Alto, Lake Tahoe, and Vegas that will be familiar to any to any bay area d......more

Goodreads review by Corey on October 18, 2010

I think this book sucked. I honestly could have written a better book. How did this get published? I award this book zero stars.......more

Goodreads review by Smez on August 30, 2013

The plot is strange and different...that's why I kept reading. The main dilemma is a bit silly, though it stems from interesting observations about technology. The book had enough unexpected moments to be an ok mystery, but I wouldn't call it a thriller. Also, I could have done without the sappy lov......more

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