A heist novel for a new era, in which the most valuable things in life are virtual, privacy is a sick joke, and security is relative. After all is lost, what remains?
[A] rambunctious, thoroughly entertaining heist novel ... Daddy issues go hand in glove with the surveillance state, and they give welcome ballast to Cloudthief’s buddy comedy.
With the narrator’s increasing recklessness and deep musings on loneliness and family, multiplying mysteries surrounding Virginia, arresting descriptions of the sanctums of tech, caustic humor, and droll suspense, Rich has ingeniously crafted a seductive bull’s-eye thriller of psychological exactitude and scathing societal critique.
Moving from self-storage facilities to data centers to prisons, he investigates the archiving of objects, information, and people no longer needed. Crisp dialog between Tim and Ces lightens the mood of a serious novel.
