Bandwidth by Eliot Peper
Product description:
A rising star at a preeminent political lobbying firm, Dag Calhoun represents the world’s most powerful technology and energy executives. But when a close brush with death reveals that the influence he wields makes him a target, impossible cracks appear in his perfect, richly appointed life.
Like everyone else, Dag relies on his digital feed for everything—a feed that is as personal as it is pervasive and may not be as private as it seems. As he struggles to make sense of the dark forces closing in on him, he discovers that activists are hijacking the feed to manipulate markets and governments. Going public would destroy everything he’s worked so hard to build, but it’s not just Dag’s life on the line—a shadow war is coming, one that will secure humanity’s future or doom the planet to climate catastrophe. Ultimately, Dag must decide the price he’s willing to pay to change the world.
My Review
This is a 5 star read. I thought it was fantastic.
Quite a dark story but you can easily see this coming true in a few years as global greed and technology advances impact increasingly on our lives.
In the beginning I could see myself taking Dag’s attitude of “I’m alright”, “it’s all part of the job” and “it will never happen”, because the alternative is too terrible to take seriously.
In this story the author shows that we can affect global issues if we change our mindset and swim against the current, instead of going with the flow.
I would recommend Bandwidth to people who like ‘Near Future” stories that are more situations than science.
This book has been added to my “Need More Of The Same” shelf
on Goodreads.
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