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After finishing medical school, Nat Idle decided not to become a doctor but to change his career to a freelance journalist. He is doing research in an internet café about what cell phones can do to the brain when a beautiful woman places a note on his table telling him to leave the café immediately. The note is written in the handwriting of his girlfriend who died in a boating accident four years earlier. Nat decides to try to follow the woman and just as he gets out of the café it explodes killing many and leaving a few survivors. Nat feels has to investigate to find out if the woman is really his long dead girlfriend, Annie Kindle. He tracks down a waitress, Erin Coultran, who survived the blast to ask if she had seen the woman who left him the note. Together the two soon start to investigate the explosion and Annie's disappearance. But they also discover some strange things. One of Erin's friend's had recently killed himself after complaining of severe headaches, the same kind of headaches that Nat is suffering from. Nat also discovers that Erin was arrested for helping to set a fire and some of her actions are making him suspicious. Could Erin have set the explosion at the café? Does Nat's headaches have anything to do with what is going on? And is Annie still alive and if so, why hasn't she contacted Nat after four long years? Nat is determined to find out the truth even if it means possibly being killed. HOOKED is author Matt Richtel's first novel. The book starts out interestingly enough as the café explodes and the main character starts to wonder if his dead girlfriend might be involved. The relationship that Nat and Erin, the waitress, has during their investigation is intriguing especially when Nat starts to question if Erin is who she says she is. The author brings us into the back rooms of big corporations and shows us to what extent they will go in order to get people to buy their products. HOOKED is a fine novel but it goes a little too far in the premise of what can be done to people who surf the internet, having to do with subliminal messages and such. It was a bit too far-fetched but, all in all, the book is fast-paced and full of excitement with some likable characters. Pick up HOOKED for an enjoyable read.
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, June 2007
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