High Wire

Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers #14

by Mel Odom, Tom Clancy (Series Creator), Steve Pieczenik (Series Creator)

In the future, computers rule the world. The Net Force was formed to protect us from any and all criminal activity online. But there is a group of teenage whiz kids who sometimes know more about computers than their adult superiors. They are the Net Force Explorers. They go where no one else can go. And they fight crime like no one else in the world...In High Wire, the only ring Net Force Explorer Andy Moore finds in a virtual circus is a black market ring -- in high-tech weapons software and hardware.

Genres: Thriller, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 28, 2001

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

aka Jordan Gray

Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.

Reviews

[Stephanie Sirois]

It felt like the author was just on the precipice of figuring out his own misogyny, but then missed the point.

There was no character development, and the plot line came out of nowhere and didn't mesh up. It also played on stereotypes about Roma and Eastern to Middle Eastern cultures.

When do we get to move away from Americans being correct in everything, and everyone else being the enemy?

Anyway, the best part was the imagining of the net as a VR experience.

[Jim]

It started out a bit boring, but in the end it turned out to be a good book