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LA Private Investigator Chalk is hired to find three adult sons a Hollywood mogul fathered through a sperm bank many years before. United, the three half brothers discover they share a desire to be warriors. They plan a heist to prove they are worthy of enlisting with a paramilitary leader who has taken both a name and a mad inspiration from Kubrick's dark satire Dr. Strangelove. General Ripper's forces begin by robbing pharmaceutical warehouses and then mailing the stolen prescription drugs to America's veterans. They escalate to kidnapping video game designers and broadcasting their deaths. The ensuing chaos builds toward a culminating drone attack that will forever prove Ripper's warning that graphics have made warriors terrorists. Chalk is an ex-FBI agent whose specializations are cults and computer forensics. The tools of his trade as a PI are a Porsche 911, an unregistered Glock, modified cellphones, radios, and an eclectic collection of computers. He suffers from bipolar disorder, lives alone and hopes to one day be able to see his son without the constraints placed on him by the courts.
- Sales Rank: #3082708 in Books
- Published on: 2014-11-04
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .73" w x 5.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
About the Author
Carac Allison started playing with PET and Tandy computers when he was a young teen. He learned to write on a Commodore 64 but he was never much of a programmer. When he finished his undergraduate degree, Carac started working for the University of Western Ontario as a low level clerk. He went on to found the Web and IT Team in Student Services and has directed projects on database security, electronic data interchange, mobile devices and distributed online identity. As a member of Western's Information Group on Security, the Risk Assessment team and an investigator in student hacking cases, he has seen the good, the bad and the ugly of the digital frontier.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
hardboiled detective story meets modern technology
By Sneaky Burrito
I normally read fantasy, but I like to mix in a non-fantasy book every now and then, to see what's going on outside my genre of choice. Mysteries -- of all types -- are normally what I turn to next most often; I have a special fondness for hardboiled detective novels. It's one genre in which the first-person point of view really works, the pacing is usually great, and there aren't silly things like recipes cluttering up the text. Most of the detective stories of this type that I've read though, involve decidedly low-tech legwork (either because they were set decades in the past or because the PI character couldn't use technology, a la Harry Dresden). So I was a little worried that I wouldn't understand all of the language about hacking -- I am *not* a computer person, by any means -- but that turned out not to be a problem. The information was delivered in small chunks at appropriate times in the story. I'm not saying I picked up on every little detail, but I got more than enough to follow the story.
I waffled in my opinion of the main character (Chalk) for awhile, but after finishing the book, I decided his actions during the course of the investigation made sense. We first encounter him when he is accepting a job from a famous Hollywood personality. Chalk finds out more than he really needs to, and keeps going on related matters after the initial investigation is closed. At first, it seemed like a too-convenient plot device to get us to the real meat of the story, but as the book goes on, we learn more about Chalk's background and personality and a past (or ongoing) case that particularly haunts him, and I think the drive to acquire additional information makes sense and fits with the character quite well -- it just takes a little time for everything to come together. Unlike in many hardboiled detective novels, I feel like we get a lot of character development with Chalk. We learn about a failed marriage, mental illness, the events that drove Chalk into being a PI, etc., but we also get his emotional reactions, and they seem genuine to me. There's not much development of other characters; the major villain/nemesis figure is largely absent. But that's OK, especially in a first-person novel.
It's a few days after I finished reading this and I can't remember much about the language. To me, that indicates that it did its job -- conveyed the events of the story without calling attention to itself. I thought the pace was great; something was happening nearly every minute. Even when Chalk is at home, watching movies and reading, there's usually a good reason for the choices he makes with respect to media. Diversions from the main storyline are quick enough that they don't slow things down (and they help with character development). If time is spent on something that seems irrelevant, keep it in the back of your mind, because there are a few elements like this that turn out to be important to the story later on.
There was definitely some infodumping going on when it came to technology, hacking, etc. I did notice this while I was reading, but it never went on for too long. There were enough other story elements in between these parts that the story worked for me. And in one sense, it was necessary to include this information for the benefit of people like me who just don't know this stuff. I wouldn't have any idea that cloning someone's cell phone could be done unless it had been explained to me. Too many things I didn't know about, and I'd start to think the author was making things up. But with brief explanations, I am able to buy the technology. (A few elements didn't fit; it seems less likely that Chalk ought to know about dog fighting, specific professional wrestlers, opium dens, and Chinese gambling operations, than about technology. Although I guess he could have Googled some of that information and we don't need to be told how Google works...)
A slightly larger criticism is that some things seemed too easy for Chalk. He seemed very good at getting precisely the information he wanted from lonely women. People were just very willing to open up. And once he pretended to be a Dell repairman in a manner that would have raised red flags with me. Maybe I'm just overly skeptical. Chalk certainly did run into difficulties; he made a couple of rash decision that got him into trouble and the FBI seemed uninterested in what he had to tell them. I still thought there was enough tension and action, and it *was* more interesting to have another character tell a story than for Chalk to just steal the information from an e-mail and repeat it to us.
In terms of formatting, proofreading, etc., this book was fairly readable. The paragraph indents were a little larger than I'm used to, but for the most part, this didn't interfere with the reading experience. I did notice a handful of typos. For the most part, these did not break immersion, although the book could benefit from the services of a copy editor. Another minor point: from what I can tell, this book takes place today. But the POV character mentions tempting a wrestler with an offer from WCW (a professional wrestling outfit), only WCW doesn't exist anymore, except as a subsidiary of WWE, which the character had recently left under not very pleasant circumstances. Another thing that bothered me a bit was the description of the production of opium, which does not come from the leaves of the opium poppy, but from the seed pods. Anyway, these were minor details and the plot didn't hinge on either one of them.
In the end, despite a few flaws as discussed above, I enjoyed this book a great deal. Think I might've gotten a bit more out of it if I had seen Dr. Strangelove more recently than 9 years ago (although enough about the movie is explained that I was never totally lost). I kept reading at a pretty fast clip because I wanted to find out what happened next. If a book can do that for me, I'm happy, and this book delivered. The ending definitely set up a sequel, more likely two, and I will be on the lookout for those, for sure.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating Debut Novel Effectively Evokes Vintage Crime Era Greatness
By Edward L Zimmerman
Despite what some scholars would tell you, there’s more to the dime novels of the forties and fifties than just hard-boiled mysteries. That’s because not all of us agree that any one author necessarily represents a certain tone or style. For example, many critics tend to lump the works of Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler into the same boat though the two are worlds apart stylistically. I find that laughable mostly because Spillane’s Mike Hammer would mop the floor with Chandler’s Philip Marlowe if it ever came to fisticuffs, though they’d no doubt make up by knocking back a few afterwards at the bar. Call me cynical or call me naïve, but that’s my opinion.
Anyhow, I tend to ignore modern day private eye novels because I’ve found they rarely capture that sense of the ‘vintage crime’ mystery. Largely, their authors only toy with the usual characters, ingredients, and tropes, all in the hope of concocting a suitable facsimile with which to gain access to a readership hungry for a welcome return to yesterday but with today’s technological sensibilities.
Then along comes Carac Allison’s DARK DIGITAL SKY …
Meet LA private eye Chaucer. He’ll insist you call him Chalk. Much like the shamuses of the vintage crime era, he’s all ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ – a modern incarnation of the white knight, much like the aforementioned Marlowe – but he’s broken. Really broken. Failed marriage. Failed career. One might argue even his failures have failures. The weight of the world has worn him down in more ways one man can count, and he’s left with a requirement of heavy medication in order to stay primed, focused and near top mental shape. However, what elevates the character beyond a virtual warehouse of psychological shortcomings is the fact that Chalk is desperately aware of the state of his psyche, so much so that he’s constantly at war with it (suppressing it, deceiving it, even using it) in order to be the better man. His ex-wife may disagree. His former partners do. Everyone around him might, as well.
It’s the readers who know different.
DARK DIGITAL SKY introduces an entire world of secret badassery that’s hiding just beneath the surface of reality, sometimes even buried in the bits and bytes of this technological Frankenstein some might call ‘The Matrix’ of our own era. In this place, individual madmen have found ways to come together, and – using institutions of our own design – they’re creating chaos and social mayhem that the usual authorities either can't or won’t see coming. Chalk can, mostly because he knows where to look, but what he finds shocks his already out-of-whack sensibilities.
The tale begins much like any of the better vintage crime novels would – a dying, aging millionaire wants nothing more than to be re-united with his children he never knew. But author Allison captures it in such a way that this story seemingly about people ends up being about how modern times has perverted our sense of family, duty, and patriotism in much the same way The Island of Dr. Moreau warped what we thought was possible with genetics. Oh, yes, Chalk manages to arrange the reunion, but in doing so he inadvertently taps into an even greater mystery – and a vastly broader conspiracy. All of it shows just how far this civilized world we live in has strayed from the path to this brave new world into institutional absurdity … and it just might be the death of us all.
As a character, Chalk might be a difficult ‘hero’ for some readers to wrap their head around. He’s understandably jaded and cynical, and – for the record – he possibly owns more rock’n’roll-themed T-shirts than any adult male should. SKY is told in first person, and there’s clearly an awful lot going on up there inside Chalk’s operable brain. He’s a virtual encyclopedia of things virtual, and I’ll admit some of the technology associated to what he does escapes this old schooler even with Allison’s capable writing. But – like those mysteries from decades ago that I love so much – it all comes back to bad people doing bad things, and in that respect Chalk is decidedly like Marlowe or Mickey Spillane, Lew Archer or Sam Spade: you want him on your side when the chips are down.
Lastly, I could nitpick some of how newcomer Allison crafts his real-world elements. For example, I suspect three men (even heavily armed as these are) would suffer a much more dire fate than the three who work together in taking down the LAPD evidence locker. It’s way too easy (almost too theatrical?) for our private eye to walk into a secured crime scene, encountering no resistance, and walking away with a key piece of evidence. Plus, some of these characters questioned by Chalk give up their goods way too quickly, way too conveniently, so much so that the reader is accidently assured “it’s only a book.”
But – in the end – they’re easy blemishes to forgive for such a wild ride.
DARK DIGITAL SKY (DARK PANTHEON SERIES BOOK 1) is published by Crime Planet Press and is presently available in digital format. It bears the cover price of $2.99, and that’s a bargain so far as how much enjoyment this reader managed to glean from the contents between its covers.
HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION POSSIBLE.
Carac Allison’s debut novel – DARK DIGITAL SKY (DARK PANTHEON SERIES BOOK 1) – is a stunner. The plot is a labyrinthine experience I suspect some readers will need to wrap their heads around (sperm banks + computer hacks + modern militias, etc.), but they’ll no doubt marvel at how all of the dots come together in not so much a big finish (though there is one) as it is a rest-stop – the days of the Dark Pantheon are just getting started, so it’s a good thing Chalk is still on-the-job.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Well written techno/private eye story. Looking forward to sequel.
By R. Ballister
Solid story well told. Classic PI, but with a twist. The hero is a former FBI agent who in addition to being brave to the point of reckless is also about as tech savvy as they come. He can crack networks, steal passwords, hack into databases, whatever is needed. The end result is a story that appeals to both PI mystery junkies and also techno-geeks. Some of the tech was over my head, but for the most part it seemed both understandable and believable.
The story itself has plenty of twists and turns to keep it interesting, and the overall premise of an underground network of serial killers is a good intro to the franchise. Definitely worth the effort.
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