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    The Digital Plague
    The Digital Plague
    The Digital Plague
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Digital Plague

    Written by Jeff Somers

    Narrated by Todd McLaren

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    They spread, Mr. Cates.... Once a single microscopic unit enters the body, it begins replicating. Once there are enough units in the body, they begin...consuming.

    Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die-in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 29, 2010
    ISBN9781400186754
    The Digital Plague
    Author

    Jeff Somers

    In 1995 Jeff Somers began publishing his own magazine, The Inner Swine (InnerSwine.com). His published novels include the Avery Cates series, the Ustari Cycle, Chum, and The Ruiner. He's also had stories published in many magazines, most of which regret the connection. His story "Ringing the Changes" was chosen for "Best American Mystery Stories 2006" and his story "Sift, Almost Invisible, Through" appeared in Crimes by Moonlight edited by Charlaine Harris in 2010. He currently lives in Hoboken, NJ, with his lovely wife Danette and their plump, imperious cats. In between all this and writing, Jeff plays chess and staves off despair with cocktails.

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    • 1/5
      Tedious. An unnecessary sequel to a thinly disguised movie synopsis. Intrigued by the adventures of main character Avery Cates after the fallout from book one in the series: ' Electric Church,' I decided to read the next in the set 'Digital Plague'. What a mistake. Stumbling from clumsily described action set-piece to clumsily described action set-piece, I was pummelled with vivid, graphic, and unsatisfying action gore from about 20 page right until the open-hook ending at page 330. The brevity of the paperback is about the only thing which made me finish. There must be a market for this style of bombastic action, because there are currently two more 'Avery Cates' novels in the series, but I cannot understand why. The frustrating thing is that Jeff Somers seems like a skilled writer, but his world building is dull, and the main character of Avery seems irredeemable and deeply unlikable. As a reader I found no single character to root for, and I didn't feel strongly about any of them to care what ultimately happened to them - and if they were associated with Avery in any way then there were more than likely going to meet a gruesome death before the current books end.For cyberpunk / noir then Blade runner or better yet Mona Lis Overdrive are both much better use of your time.
    • 5/5
      After destroying THE ELECTRIC CHURCH in his first adventure, anti-hero Avery Cates returns in Somers' second installment of this dark, gritty scifi series.Someone injects Cates with a mysterious substance--the same substance that has begun to kill off others like a mix of cancer and ebola. With the help of some new "System Pigs" (a.k.a. the police) and a super-nerdy "techie," Cates learns he has been selected as the host to a DIGITAL PLAGUE, i.e. cell-sized nanobots who self-replicate until their victims die a most horrendous death. Those who come within eight (or so) feet of Cates instantly catch the plague, but those who STAY with him remain okay until they leave his presence (hence why our small crew stays close together throughout the novel).From brutal fights and shoot-outs in the streets of New York (this series has the feel of a more hardcore BLADERUNNER), Cates and the cops (all who'd like to kill him, by the way) grab a hover craft to Paris, France, where the secret to who injected him (and began this plague) may be found. Along the way there's run-ins with various freaks, geeks, and even some Monks who survived the Electric Church's downfall.THE DIGITAL PLAGUE is every bit as good as THE ELECTRIC CHURCH; horror fans will (probably) enjoy the extreme violence, scifi fans will dig the technobabble (that's thankfully kept to a minimum), and there's so much action it's nearly impossible to put this one down for a second. Just be warned that there's more profanity in this series than GOODFELLAS and WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP combined!
    • 3/5
      Fun book, though some of what happens to Avery Cates seems a bit far out.
    • 3/5
      The Digital Plague is a sequel to The Electric Church. In some ways I lucked out finding and reading The Electric Church just weeks before the sequel was due out. I ran right out and bought it, and read it in a weekend. In some ways The Digital Plague suffered in comparison.Avery Cates, a king of the under world after destroying The Electric Church and incidentally helping the chief of all the system cops effectively stage a coup, starts off this story by being kidnapped, injected with something, and turned into a plague carrier. The rest of the novel is pretty much Avery repeating his determination to get the person what done him wrong and not caring who or what gets in his way. Except when he does, because occasionally he has to show his humanity by not killing some people.While the Electric Church was a discovery of a whole new world, discovering how it works, and making our way through the intrigue with Cates some how pulling through to get to some final knowledge, some resolution, The Digital Plague feels like it is just hitting a single note over and over again, dragging Cates along.It is still an enjoyable read, but so many of the characters just feel pasted in, and with nothing really new to discover about the world Somers has created, Avery Cates is just going through the motions. Still, the events of The Digital Plague and The Electric Church have set up a hugely changed world, and a stage for a titanic political and power struggle. I have high hopes that the next Avery Cates novel will capitalize on that, and I look forward to it.
    • 5/5
      What a ride! Just when I thought I had everything all figured out, Jeff Somers pulls a few twists out of thin air that just leave the reader breathless. Adventure and action non-stop from the first line in the book to the end. Avery spends most of the book getting kicked around by everyone as he frantically tries to figure out what is going on.