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Sonic Ping
When Daryl Morgan, self-made millionaire with a weakness for damsels in distress, receives a plea for help from Madeline, his best friend's widow, he has no idea that helping her will take him to Casablanca, Marrakesh, Uganda and Tripoli, uncovering a trail that leads to internet fraud, white slavery and murder. With his martial arts, electronic genius friend, Rodger Truscott, Daryl discovers that someone is using Sonic Ping, the new super hot Google competitor, to steal billions of dollars from unsuspecting customers via click fraud... killing or sending into white slavery anyone who gets close. When their investigation turns the heat up too much, Madeline is abducted and sold into slavery. Rescuing Madeline only deepens the mystery. The trail seems to lead back to Mikahyl Dashkov, the founder of Sonic Ping, but the key to his involvement is another victim of white slavery. Daryl and Rodger set off to Tripoli to rescue her and along the way they enlist a host of unusual characters to assist them: the sultry Selma, part owner of the local gentleman's club, Achmed Bakam al Saadin , the Wazir of Marrakesh, his son Prince Hakeem, the stunning and dangerous Arabian female mercenary Poison and the gargantuan bodyguard Tiny. Villains are everywhere: the whiz kid founder of the search engine company, corrupt cops, Russian mobsters and Middle Eastern oil tzars. The odds are against them and everything is at stake, including their lives.
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First published January 1, 2011
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June 7, 2011
If you're into murder, mayhem, mystery and international intrigue then Sonic Ping by Orlando Stephenson may be the book for you. I started this book at the beginning of the month and only read a few pages before a migraine wiped me out for a few days. I began to reread Sonic Ping from the beginning earlier today and completed it after only a few hours. This was a roller coaster ride from almost the beginning to the end.
Daryl is a millionaire inventor that is bent on saving the world from injustice. His partner in subverting crime is a seriously dangerous computer geek, Rodger. They both get sucked into a world of murder, computer fraud, law enforcement corruption, kidnaping, white slavery and murder when Daryl receives a late night call. Maddie is the widow of their friend Brad, another millionaire computer guy. Maddie calls Daryl, frantic that her niece, Jennifer, has been kidnaped and the kidnappers want money . . . money that Brad had supposedly stolen.
Some of the action in the beginning seems a bit farfetched. Daryl leaves his loving wife at home in bed and then gets the hots for Maddie. Even after his wife has been murdered, he still has a "thing" for Maddie but winds up in a relationship with another woman. He and Rodger are able to successfully free an enslaved woman and guess what? You guessed it. Daryl winds up being attracted to her as well. I'm not saying Daryl's a dog, but if the collar fits!
Mr. Stephenson managed to keep my attention even though I was mildly disgusted by Daryl's libido issues. Rodger is an ex-Navy Seal with some serious computer skills. This and his ability to blush when confronted by his girlfriend, Jennifer, or other slightly flirtatious women was amusing given he has no qualms in breaking people's arms or killing them when required. Daryl and Rodger's investigation, launched by the kidnaping and retrieval of first Jennifer, then Maddie and finally undercover FBI agent Judy Green is convoluted and takes the reader to Morocco, Algeria and all over Massachusetts. Their interactions with characters such as Tiny (why are all huge bodyguards called Tiny?), computer hacker extra ordinaire Poison a.k.a. Fatima, and Prince Hakeem truly made for some interesting reading. Sonic Ping includes some heavy subject matters such as police corruption, slavery and rape. Some of these are glossed over but discussed nonetheless. I don't feel that it would be possible for the author to do justice to all of these themes without having an extremely lengthy book. For the most part the characters and the action are quite believable. The good guys aren't wholly good but the bad guys are really bad. This was a fast read and is perhaps suitable for a day at the beach or pool.
Daryl is a millionaire inventor that is bent on saving the world from injustice. His partner in subverting crime is a seriously dangerous computer geek, Rodger. They both get sucked into a world of murder, computer fraud, law enforcement corruption, kidnaping, white slavery and murder when Daryl receives a late night call. Maddie is the widow of their friend Brad, another millionaire computer guy. Maddie calls Daryl, frantic that her niece, Jennifer, has been kidnaped and the kidnappers want money . . . money that Brad had supposedly stolen.
Some of the action in the beginning seems a bit farfetched. Daryl leaves his loving wife at home in bed and then gets the hots for Maddie. Even after his wife has been murdered, he still has a "thing" for Maddie but winds up in a relationship with another woman. He and Rodger are able to successfully free an enslaved woman and guess what? You guessed it. Daryl winds up being attracted to her as well. I'm not saying Daryl's a dog, but if the collar fits!
Mr. Stephenson managed to keep my attention even though I was mildly disgusted by Daryl's libido issues. Rodger is an ex-Navy Seal with some serious computer skills. This and his ability to blush when confronted by his girlfriend, Jennifer, or other slightly flirtatious women was amusing given he has no qualms in breaking people's arms or killing them when required. Daryl and Rodger's investigation, launched by the kidnaping and retrieval of first Jennifer, then Maddie and finally undercover FBI agent Judy Green is convoluted and takes the reader to Morocco, Algeria and all over Massachusetts. Their interactions with characters such as Tiny (why are all huge bodyguards called Tiny?), computer hacker extra ordinaire Poison a.k.a. Fatima, and Prince Hakeem truly made for some interesting reading. Sonic Ping includes some heavy subject matters such as police corruption, slavery and rape. Some of these are glossed over but discussed nonetheless. I don't feel that it would be possible for the author to do justice to all of these themes without having an extremely lengthy book. For the most part the characters and the action are quite believable. The good guys aren't wholly good but the bad guys are really bad. This was a fast read and is perhaps suitable for a day at the beach or pool.
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