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Cybercash
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ISBN:
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Price:
$16.95
Category/Subject:
A president abolishes cash. A senator struggles to reconcile principles and ambitions. A young wife suffers the consequences
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Customer Reviews
A Too-Believable Political Thriller
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11/08/2004
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Reviewer:
H.Miller (Boston, MA, United States)
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Maggie Kent takes us on a rapid-fire trip through a political minefield. Her husband, Robert Kent, is an ambitious senator from New York who makes a name for himself by confronting the administration of President Michael Chiswell on the issue of privacy rights.
--- Chiswell is moving the country little by little towards a level of government intrusion never before attempted. Robert and Maggie are caught up in a courageous struggle, buoyed up in the excitement of a political campaign only to be — well, I won't spoil the ending!
---This splendid first novel by author C.J. Howard introduces some very believable characters; I wasn't sure which bad guy was worse! Maggie and Robert are multi-dimensional, each with qualities and flaws, and Maggie doesn't hesitate to expose them. The style is lively and the images memorable, for example, Maggie shrinking from the advances of Governor Livingston "feeling like a field mouse confronted by a mongoose."
---Perhaps the author spends a bit too much time justifying the possibility of the complete abolition of bills and the exclusive reliance on "cybercash". Some readers may want to just get on with the story. However, I sense that the author is on to something, and in fact I found the entire scenario to be a little too believable!
---In short, this novel would be the perfect companion for a long plane ride. Chances are good that it beats the in-flight movie. In fact, "Cybercash" itself would make an engrossing movie.
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Is Cybercash the Way of the Future
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11/10/2004
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Reviewer:
Michael P.
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"Cybercash" is not yet a word you hear every day, but that is what banks and other financial institutions have dubbed electronic money, money transferred over the internet. And cybercash is what President Michael Chiswell wants to replace bills and coins. Chiswell knows that the more information a government has, the more it controls and the more power it wields. And knowing what people do with their money is an enormous source of information.
C.J. Howard's novel about Washington politics is definitely a thinking-person's book. It is a page-turner and a question-prompter. How much privacy are we willing to give up for our convenience and for our security?
Robert and Maggie Trent form an engaging couple, trying to make their way to the top of the political heap while hanging on to their principles. Over four years, they learn a lot about politics— and about themselves. Along the way, they meet many provocative characters: a '60's flower-child in 21st Century Washington, a beautiful and bitchy Congresswoman with a late-blooming conscience, a redneck who dares to confront a United States senator, and a lecherous president-elect who lets loose a tirade worthy of the media mogul in the cult film "Network".
Fast-paced, suspenseful and even informative. It seems the future is with cybercash...
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