August 13, 2012

  • Hold Tight

    The book I am reviewing in this post is Hold Tight by Harlan Coben which is an excellent thriller which I bought from a car boot sale. The book is about 2 parents and the father is a doctor and their son has just lost a close friend and they want to keep an eye on him. They do this by putting spy software on his computer. At the beginning of the book it says that the software technology used in the book is actual and having quite a lot of knowledge on that subject I can vouch for it. There's 2 main types of software one is screen capture which captures the whole screen and the other type is a key logger which captures the key presses. Incidently another use for a key logger is if you are teaching typing and need to see what someone has typed. Anyway they decide not to tell their son and the version they use appears to be the screen capture type. Their son appears to be getting strange messages telling him not to say anything. This is connected to the fact that someone stole some prescription pads from his father and he is being put under pressure to steal more. Also the people he is dealing don't take no for an answer and are rather sadistic. Also on the night their son's friend died he phoned him but they had fallen so he never answered the phone and he feels guilty because it was suicide. His parents discover that he's being going to the Jaguar Club where the kids have been taking and stealing pills like valium to make them high and replacing them with black market copies which often only contain aspirin or something similiar. His father gets beaten up when he goes to the club to investigate and when the police it just seems to compound the trouble he's in. It does have a happy ending though.

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