If the name Matt Richtel sounds familiar, it’s because this guy has been following technology for the New York Times for going on seven years. Tomorrow, Richtel’s first novel, Hooked, will hit the stands. According to the subtitle, Hooked is “a thriller about love and other addictions.” All I can say is that the first two pages, which find our narrator receiving a note from an anonymous woman in a San Francisco cafe seconds before the cafe explodes, did, indeed, have me hooked. The book is fast-paced and often funny, at times surprising, and will likely delight Silicon Valley...
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