Book details of 'Vengeance in Death'

Title	Vengeance in Death
Author(s)	J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts
ISBN	0425160394
Language	English
Published	September 2003
Publisher	Berkley Pub Group

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
I have no idea why this book is cast as science fiction, or supposedly set sixty years into the future. Aside from the odd mention of androids, robots, and stunners, it proceeds pretty much like any current hard boiled cop story. We are told that aircars and helicopters flit constantly through the canyons of New York (and wouldn't *that* be really likely), but the chases that happen stick almost exclusively to two dimensions. (The book also seems to have some pretensions as a romance, but all the tender love scenes appear to occupy a maximum time of thirty seven seconds, with little foreplay aside from some yelling and screaming. This is actually a very masculine romance.) There isn't any understanding (or explanation) of the current level of the technology used, let alone where progress might take it. If you try to trace a phone call, the caller can "jam" you from the other end. Digitized video can be altered (surprise!) but apparently nobody has heard of digital watermarking, a technology that is readily available now. Failing to "register" computer equipment (with some kind of security agency?) ensures that no information can be obtained, even when data is transferred to or from the secured location from a public net. Nobody has heard of digital cash, either, although somehow a "transfer" of funds (which implies a source and a destination) is untraceable. Fiction this may be, but science it is not. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2000
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A madman brutally murders two men-both with ties to an ugly secret shared by Lieutenant Eve Dallas' new husband, Roarke.