The Thought Cathedral

by Nathan Williams

Lyn Lee is working as a technician for Brooklyn Capital Management, an obscure and unusual venture capital firm located away from the Wall Street establishment in Brooklyn, New York, when she is recruited by Charlie Monroe, the company’s eccentric founder and CEO, and the FBI to help identify a mole they believe is passing classified information to the Chinese government. Security clearance in hand, Lee is scanned into the company’s ultra-advanced virtual reality portal and encouraged by the FBI to initiate a relationship with one of the FBI’s lead suspects. Meanwhile, Lee is unaware that the tension has been ratcheted sky high due to the abduction and brutal murder of some of Brooklyn Capital’s finest on U.S. soil and the attempted extortion of game-changing cloaking technology developed by the firm.

Lee finds herself caught in an unprecedented game of cat and mouse between the United States and China as she must rely on her wits and resourcefulness developed from her experiences as the daughter of Chinese immigrants in gang-ridden 80’s New York City and an unusual cast of characters to find the culprits before the politics boil over into the streets of New York City, Beijing, and Shanghai.

526 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2015

About the author

I'm a graduate of the University of Nebraska with degrees in Mathematics and Business. Apart from writing I enjoy travel, swimming, reading, and music. I currently reside in Omaha, NE

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Espionage novel with a strong female protagonist. Someone is killing scientists, and Lyn Lee has to get to the bottom of things.

Not bad, but perhaps lingers a bit too much on descriptions of Lyn Lee, unless this was supposed to originally be some sort of sleaze novel.

[Melody · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this in a Goodreads giveaway. My opinion is just that...mine...and completely unbiased.

Mr. Williams has delivered a sophisticated, hi-tech, suspense novel that is both well-written and thoroughly entertaining. Chinese politics, murder, computer wizardry and industrial espionage all wrapped up in one great read.