MYSTERY

Interference

by Brad Parks
Thomas & Mercer: Amazon. Sept. 2020. 400p. ISBN 9781542023399. $24.95. THRILLER
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In this latest tightly bound thriller from Parks (The Last Act), Matthew Bronik, a renowned Dartmouth physicist with a specialty in quantum mechanics, has been suffering from mysterious seizures. His groundbreaking research has drawn the attention of many, including foreign governments and a young millionaire entrepreneur who sees the work as the next step in humanity itself. But when Matthew disappears on the way to the hospital after another seizure, Brigid, his librarian wife, battles sinister forces to track him down. She enlists the help of Matthew’s Dartmouth assistant, Sheera, herself entangled with the research, and a gruff local police detective to help provide answers and to bring him home.
VERDICT Parks, better known for character-driven mysteries, ventures into Michael Crichton and Blake Crouch territory with a procedural thriller with an sf edge and a ton of heart that leads to an explosive (and emotional) finale. Even though Parks’s staccato writing style, where every sentence is a potential paragraph, takes some getting used to, this should satisfy a wide swath of readers.
Reviewed by Gregg Winsor, Johnson Cty. Lib., Overland Park, KS , Sep 01, 2020
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