The god's eye view

Title:

The god's eye view

Author:

Summary:

NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn Gallagher doesn't care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA's camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash. But when Evelyn discovers the existence of a program code-named God's Eye and connects it with the mysterious deaths of a string of journalists and whistle-blowers, her doubts put her and Dash in the crosshairs of a pair of government assassins.

Physical Description:

374 pages, 32 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Corporate Subject:

United States. National Security Agency -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Assassins -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Thomas & Mercer,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9781503951518

9781503949614

Publication Information:

Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2016]

Call Number:

EISLER

Holds: Copies:

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Knowledge is power...and they know everything.

NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe.

Evelyn Gallagher doesn't care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA's camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash.

But when Evelyn discovers the existence of an NSA program code-named God's Eye, and connects it with the mysterious deaths of a string of journalists and whistle-blowers, her doubts put her and Dash in the crosshairs of a pair of government assassins: Delgado, a sadistic bomb maker and hacker; and Manus, a damaged giant of a man who until now has cared for nothing beyond protecting the director.

Within an elaborate game of political blackmail, terrorist provocations, and White House scheming, a global war is being fought--a war between those desperate to keep the state's darkest secrets and those intent on revealing them. A war that Evelyn will need all her espionage training and savvy to survive. A war in which the director has the ultimate informational advantage: The God's Eye View.

Author Notes

After graduating from Cornell Law School in 1989, Barry Eisler spent three years with the U.S. government. For a decade thereafter he practiced various aspects of international law, including a year with the Japanese law firm of Hamada and Matsumoto in Tokyo and two years as in-house counsel at the Osaka headquarters of Matsushita Electric and Industrial Co., Ltd.

Eisler's bestselling thrillers, have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year and have been included in a number "Best Of" lists. He is the author of A John Rain Thriller Ser. He is also the author of Fault Line and Inside Out.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In this intricately plotted thriller from bestseller Eisler (Graveyard of Memories), NSA analyst Evelyn Gallagher warns Theodore Anders, the NSA director, that her worldwide spy system has tagged a senior NSA official meeting in Istanbul with an investigative reporter-an indicator that a major security breach may be happening. But she unwisely expresses her suspicion to the Anders that the NSA seems to be proactive in the permanent removal of such persons, making herself a threat to his highly illegal God's Eye program. Gallagher, a single mother supporting her deaf young son, Dash, now becomes the target of the director's wet-work specialists, the sadistic Thomas Delgado and Marvin Manus, a deaf brute with a deadly skill set. But Manus finds himself bonding with Dash and then becomes attracted to Gallagher. When the two fall into a romantic entanglement, all hell breaks loose. Eisler's expert knowledge of spycraft and hand-to-hand combat combine with his ultra-deep distrust of government intelligence to propel this suspenseful yarn into the front ranks of paranoid thrillers. Agent: Laura Rennert, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Evelyn Gallagher is a smart, skilled computer analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA). When a series of events occur in Turkey, she sees that something is not quite right and her suspicions are verified when a terrorist bombing takes place in Washington, DC. She and her deaf son become the targets of "The Director," a megalomaniac who believes that the NSA is too constrained by post-Snowden theorizing and who has supervised the development of a supersnooper program known as God's Eye that will effectively destroy any remaining semblance of privacy in the United States. He assigns his top assassin to neutralize Evie and her son. Eisler, who knows the inside workings of the government he describes, narrates, giving this fast-paced thriller a heightened sense of chills and suspense. VERDICT Highly recommended for all libraries. ["Sure to captivate fans of Lee Child or Daniel Silva": LJ 2/15/16 review of the Thomas & Mercer: Amazon hc.]-Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg Air Force Base Lib., Lompoc, CA © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.