From the minds behind Law & Order comes a razor-sharp thriller about privacy, power, and the people listening in.
When a bombing rocks New York City, former Marine Hunter Stevens and his team at Southerly—a new NSA surveillance program listening to Americans through their smart devices—race to track down those responsible. But when Hunter's daughter vanishes without a trace during the investigation, he makes a desperate choice to exploit the system’s vast surveillance network to find her. The decision sets off a chain reaction—exposing corruption, betrayal, and a deeper conspiracy within Southerly itself. Now a target of his own government, Hunter must outmaneuver the program he helped build to uncover the truth before it’s too late.
Eavesdropper is a propulsive, high-stakes thriller about privacy, power, and the cost of protecting those we love.
I hated it. It was too slow, Matt Dillon was his typical wooden self, the ominous notes in the background for every second of the thing, the multitude of people that would come in, drop a line, then skate out (i.e. the NSA director), and the abrupt, cliff-hanger ending, all lead to a 3.5 hour audio performance that took me 12 days to get through. I slogged through to say I finished it, but man, it sucked.
There was no resolution. The single plot ended in a cliff hanger with about 8 threads that needed to be buttoned up, none of which were satisfying, and all of which really needed a lot longer to flesh out. I get that it's produced by Dick Wolf, and I normally like his TV shows and such, but this felt like 20 years of Law and Order lore distilled into 3.5 hours, which STILL dragged too long, and should have been a 45 minute episode of a TV show. At most, a couple weeks worth if you were to make it at the end of the season.
I don't often write a review, but this thing was rough enough that I had to. It's time I won't ever get back.