Check out this great review of Deadlock by author and critic, Jon Land:

The death of Michael Crichton has threatened the very sub-genre he helped create. So it’s a good thing Bob Liparulo has stepped in to fill the void as witnessed in Deadlock, a superb thriller that doesn’t just trample on Crichton’s hallowed ground, but blazes its own high-tech trail.

Crichton’s problem, especially in his latter books, was blending humanity with technology. So often, in fact, the machines and manufactured monsters had more personality than their creators and antagonists. Not so in Deadlock. This sequel to Liparulo’s equally bracing Deadfall finds John Hutchinson hot on the trail of Cheney-like military industrialist Brendan Page, whose latest wunderkind discovery pits juvenile soldiers against training avatars who may or may not be real.

“Some people call it a privatized army,” Hutchinson notes early on of Page’s power. “Its tentacles reach into every aspect of defense and security.”

No small task, then, to take Page on, but Hutchinson is more than up to the task, even after Page kidnaps his young son Logan. Bringing down Page once and for all means rescuing Logan, the emotional and structural plotlines meshing perfectly and in truly big scale, wholly satisfying, Bondian form.

Reading Deadlock is like revisiting Crichton at the height of his powers. All that’s missing is the dinosaurs, but Liparulo more than makes up for this by injecting humanity into his characters instead of DNA in crafting an adrenaline rush of a thriller.*

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