Invasion of Privacy - Christopher Reich
Maybe it has something to do with the growing income gap
between the one-percenters and the rest of the world, but when is the last time
you read a fiction novel about a billionaire who wasn’t… well, evil? It’s been
a while for me, and that’s a fact. On the other hand, I’ve read a lot of
evil-billionaire plots over the years and almost (please not, I said “almost”!)
feel sorry for the poor rich folks so maligned by authors. The latest of their
number is a tech guru named Ian Prince, who’s been manhandled – literarily, not
literally – by Christopher Reich in his latest, Invasion of Privacy.
Prince, by virtue of his vast fortune, is the villain –
the heroine is Mary Grant, freshly widowed mother of two whose late husband was
FBI agent Joe Grant. Joe’s dying voice mail message to Mary suggests that
something went terribly wrong, but no one at the FBI office will listen to her –
and then the message disappears. Determined to find out why the bureau seems to
be covering up the circumstances of Joe’s death, the young widow enlists the
aid of Tank Potter, an alcoholic journalist freshly fired from his job at a
local newspaper.
