The Lead Cloak, Erik E. Hanberg
The Lead Cloak, Erik E. Hanberg
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The Lead Cloak

Author: Erik E. Hanberg

Narrator: Doug Mackey

Unabridged: 15 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2013


Synopsis

In the future, privacy is a thing of the past."Staggeringly smart… Hanberg's expertly honed storytelling is sleek and fast… [an] entertaining tale." —Kirkus ReviewsNevada, 2081. Colonel Byron Shaw safeguards the world’s innermost secrets. From a control center in Area 51, he monitors the expansive surveillance system that once saved him certain death at the hands of ruthless kidnappers. But not everyone trusts technology that peers through strangers’ eyes, so it’s no shock when a guerrilla attack nearly wipes out the network and spills his blood.Tasked with tracking down the terrorist cell, Byron sets off on a globe-spanning chase that brings him to the outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere. But as he infiltrates their ranks, a growing suspicion about the system that preserved his own life could sabotage civilization.Torn between duty and doubt, one man’s decision could rewire humanity’s future.The Lead Cloak is a tech-savvy sci-fi adventure novel. If you like high-stakes action, thought-provoking dystopian themes, and gripping twists, then you’ll love Erik Hanberg’s cerebral page-turner.Buy The Lead Cloak to login to a futuristic global thriller today!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on September 25, 2013

Classic sci-fi, with a big technological hook (The Lattice, a device that lets you see past events and experience people's thoughts), a mysterious cabal of people who have somehow found a way around it, and a highly competent (but not superhuman) investigator who will tip the balance between the two......more

Goodreads review by Eric on November 10, 2013

I quite enjoyed this book. Hanberg presented a future where not just the technology has advanced, but also, the culture, politics, and morality. And rightly so. If the technological changes become as prominent as they are in the book, then this would result in changes across the board through people......more

Goodreads review by Kim on June 11, 2017

It's been said that science fiction is set in the future but it's always written about the present. That's evident in this unusual but interesting opening book for The Lattice Trilogy. While it's set in 2081 it addresses many of the issues already surrounding the internet. In the book Colonel Byron S......more

Goodreads review by Gordon on January 10, 2016

This is a Sci-Fi story of a future where a scientific breakthrough has made it possible to predict the position every atom of the universe at any time in the past. Including the very recent past. Okay, a tall order, but not too out of line with some of the predictions of quantum physics. We can susp......more

Goodreads review by Lukas on October 05, 2016

Well now...Here's an interesting idea. To be able to see anything anywhere in the world at any time from anywhere in the past up until the present moment...furthermore, to be able to feel what someone else feels.....yes, this was definitely interesting. I love the main idea of the book. The weird th......more