The Memory Trap

by Sean Kenny

good clean copy, only minor shelf wear

400 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an entertaining look inside a firm making the latest personal computers in Silicon Valley. I found several parts strange and disturbing, like the drug dealer walking in to the office to sell his wares, someone dies, and there is no suggestion that there is CCTV or a list of workers and visitors that day. The few women are inevitably sleeping with bosses or colleagues. Even the married ones. The actual assembly plant has minimal security and hires known felons. Then when someone decides to steal from the firm he approaches the felons, who by definition are bad at being criminals, because they got caught.
Firms in Korea, Japan and Taiwan are involved but they all come off sounding the same. They sell D-RAM memory chips. Nobody in America has any company loyalty, not beyond stock options anyway. A man who opted out five years ago and retrained in diving, comes back because he ran out of money. Nobody else comes across as human or with a life beyond the office. That may be the point.
Violence, death and adult scenes.