The Gods Eye View

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 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, because the director has the ultimate advantage The God s Eye View. Read The Gods Eye View author Barry Eisler – kino-fada.fr 4 and half starsThis was a hard book to read, not because it s not well written it really is very well done but because of the subject matter and some characters The plot, to me, is scarier than many horror books and movies out there Too much power concentrated at the hands of one single person who turns out to be a megalomaniac sociopath it s terrifying I had to read it in small doses, cringing at the insanity of one of the main characters, scared for others They were all well written, 4 and half starsThis was a hard book to read, not because it s not well written it really is very well done but because of the subject matter and some characters The plot, to me, is scarier than many horror books and movies out there Too much power concentrated at the hands of one single person who turns out to be a megalomaniac sociopath it s terrifying I had to read it in small doses, cringing at the insanity of one of the main characters, scared for others They were all well written, real and scarily believable Not all characters are crazy sociopaths and psychopaths, but all of them ar...If The God s Eye View had been released even three or four years earlier, it might have carried with it the weight of a technothriller fueled solely by paranoid delusion and conspiracy fluff In the wake of Edward Snowden s revelations regarding the government s mass surveillance of American citizens, though, this book reads frighteningly realistic And although the titular NSA surveillance mechanism codenamed God s Eye is supposedly a fictional product of Barry Eisler s authorial creativity, re If The...Hmm.what to say Do you like acronyms Do you want to knowabout how our government is spying on everyone, all the time Do you like to read about computers Do you like spy novels I kept wanting to stop reading this book, it just didn t hold my interest at all I could hardly even remember the characters from one chapter to the next, they just weren t developed, they felt like sterotype charactuers, the brainy women with the big boobs, the self indulged god like dictator, the unattr Hmm.what to say Do you like acronyms Do you want to knowabout how our government is spying on everyone, all the time Do you like to read about computers Do you like spy novels I kept wanting to stop reading this book, it just didn t hold my interest at all I could hardly even remember the characters from one chapter to the next, they just weren t developed, they felt like sterotype charactuers, the brainy women with the big boobs, the self indulged god like dictator, the unattractive child abused hit man, the wounded and scarred soldier saved by the dictator But the premise of the story was intriguing and I hadn t read a government...Fuck you Barry Eisler.I don t expect an NSA novel to be realistic or even handed, though it would be nice to see someone write one that is remotely plausible Hmm When you read a novel about the NSA, you should generally treat it with the same skepticism you would treat a novel about secret vampire societies or time traveling Highlanders So I was expecting a stupid thriller where the NSA has magical see anything anywhere anytime technology and Edward Snowden and Chelsea n e Bradley Mannin Fuck you Barry Eisle...Let me start off by saying I loved the high level concept behind this novel The expected intrigue and implied machinations had me anticipating this read for months which made the eventual outcome all thedisappointing.A book should be one of two things hopefully both but at least one entertaining or enlightening Replete with overblown characterizations and long winded expositions, The God s Eye View is a third e excruciating I expected far better from a New York Times bestselling author Let me start off by saying I loved the high level concept behind this novel The expected intrigue and implied machinations had me anticipating this read for months which made the eventual outcome all thedisappointing.A book should be one of two things hopefully both but at least one entertaining or enlightening Replete with overblown characterizations and long winded expositi...A quality political thriller, with some violence but not too graphic The NSA Director has developed a powerful program to spy on citizens, and is determined to insure that nobody jeopardizes it Think of Samaritan for those of you who watch NBC s Person of Interest He sends out his two enforcers after anyone threatening to disclose the existence of the program His assistant begins to suspect duplicity, and one of the goons is sent to keep an eye on her, but becomes emotionally involved A lit A quality political thriller, with some violence but not too graphic The NSA Director has developed a powerful program to spy on citizens, and is determined to insure that nobody jeopardizes it Think of Samaritan for those of you who watch NBC s Person of Interest He sends out his two enforcers after anyone threatening to disclose the existence of the program His assistant begins to suspect duplicity, and ... I received a free copy of this novel from Thomas Mercer Publishers and NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.3.5 StarsI love political thrillers and the premise of The God s Eye View greatly interested me In a post Edward Snowden era, the NSA Director has created the ultimate data, image, location, meta data Program God s Eye View He will do anything to protect the U.S from another terrorist attack, even arranging suicides , accidents , and the murders of any and al I received a free copy of this novel from Thomas Mercer Publishers and NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.3.5 StarsI love political thrillers and the premise of The God s Eye View greatly interested me In a post Edward Snowden era, the NSA Director has created the ultimate data, image, location, meta data Program God s Eye View He will do anything to protect the U.S from another terrorist attack, even arranging suicides , accidents , and the murders of any and all so called whistle blowers Even questioning these events can get a NSA employee killed God s Eye is so compartmentalized, no one analyst knows what else is connected to God s Eye And of course, the Director is using the program for his own personal use Yes, the program the U.S isn t supposed to have, let alone be using.That is until, an analyst finishes the security protocols You guessed it she dies mysteriously But she...An unforgettable stand alone political thriller by Barry Eisler, author of the very popular John Rain series, about the NSA s efforts to keep America safe vs Americans right to privacy NSA analyst Evelyn Gallagher observes a clandestine meeting in Turkey between an NSA operative and a journalist She reports the meeting to the Director who scrambles for damage control against a potential whistle blower scandal and uses all means necessary to protect God s Eye , a highly secret ...Read this book because it s wildly entertaining Respect it because it paints a portrait of America that istimely, terrifying, and relevant than anything gracing the bestseller lists This is fiction that thrills, makes ...NSA Analyst Evelyn Gallagher is divorced and her life revolves around her deaf son, Dash She s very, very good at her job at designing facial recognition and camera recognition programs, but she makes a big but accidental mistake She tells the Director of the NSA Program that she s suspicious that there are others using a different program Director Theodore Anders hears her out and offhandedly calms her fears but later he is determined to have her watched Add to that the fact that some inve NSA Analyst Evelyn Gallagher is divorced and her life revolves around her deaf son, Dash She s very, very good at her job at designing facial recognition and camera recognition programs, but she makes a big but accidental mistake She tells the Director of the NSA Program that she s suspicious that there are others using a different program Director Theodore Anders hears her out and offhandedly calms her fears but later he is determined to have her watched Add to that the fact that some i...

• English
• 26 September 2017
Barry Eisler
• Paperback
• 374 pages
• 1503949613
• Barry Eisler
• The Gods Eye View