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Let There Be Light
Technology entrepreneur Joseph Vargas-Stern is found dead in his parents’ home two weeks before the company he founded and leads, Disrupt Devices, releases an undetectable recording device. Berkeley Detective Samson Hayes searches for the killer and immediately finds himself in conflict not only with an obstructionist Chief of Police and City Hall but also with Joseph's many enemies—civil liberties groups, West Berkeley drug gangs, technology monopolies, and white shoe lawyers. Samson's dogged quest will upend billions of dollars of paper wealth, endanger more lives, and reveal truths desperately kept in the dark.
379 pages, Paperback
Published July 4, 2021
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Raphael Chayim Rosen
7 books12 followersRaphael Chayim Rosen is the author of the book Pedestal: What Makes American Democracy Stable And Why Your Everyday Thoughts, Words & Actions Determine Its Success and the substack, Lady Liberty’s Pedestal, exploring the political culture, customs, and norms that make American democracy stable.
An award-winning scholar of history, philosophy, and physics trained at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, Rosen is also a novelist, patent-holding inventor, and one of Bloomberg’s Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs in America.
An award-winning scholar of history, philosophy, and physics trained at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, Rosen is also a novelist, patent-holding inventor, and one of Bloomberg’s Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs in America.
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September 25, 2021
a great read!
Engaging, and at times thrilling read. Felt true to many parts of the Bay Area and tech scene. Especially liked the ode to UC Berkeley throughout.
Engaging, and at times thrilling read. Felt true to many parts of the Bay Area and tech scene. Especially liked the ode to UC Berkeley throughout.
August 16, 2021
I bought the book because I was intrigued by the grade designation on Amazon — 3rd through 12th grade. A versatile mystery, that’s great, I thought, a Westing Game about start-ups, sounds promising!
Well, there are a lot of f* words and adult references to sex, including prostitution, so, not for a 3rd grader. That said, I am not sure all those adultifiers were that necessary; the plot, in the end of the day, is high tech / money crime, no direct relevance to sex, gang violence, prostitution, etc., so, I don’t know why the reader had to be dragged through all that.
Profanities aside, the plot itself was so-so, the resolution was not particularly elegant or insightful. The bad guy seems a bit naive, for such a big villain; lets himself get trapped.
I did not hear a special authorial voice that would help this story stand out, it read quite generic to me.
Well, there are a lot of f* words and adult references to sex, including prostitution, so, not for a 3rd grader. That said, I am not sure all those adultifiers were that necessary; the plot, in the end of the day, is high tech / money crime, no direct relevance to sex, gang violence, prostitution, etc., so, I don’t know why the reader had to be dragged through all that.
Profanities aside, the plot itself was so-so, the resolution was not particularly elegant or insightful. The bad guy seems a bit naive, for such a big villain; lets himself get trapped.
I did not hear a special authorial voice that would help this story stand out, it read quite generic to me.
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