An in-game bank robbery in a virtual world with the potential for severe real world consequences. It's not really what an every day detective is trained to handle. Nor, for that matter, an every day forensic accountant. But that's who is trying to solve this mystery along with an out of work gamer and game developer. Of course, when they start digging into the mystery further and further, they find that it goes much deeper and involves much bigger players than they first imagined and they are in way over their heads.
I thought the premise was interesting but the execution lacked a lot. It went too far into technical jargon when it wasn't necessary just to try to be geeky but the characters were generally shallow and boring and the plot overly complicated but then everything wrapped up simply with a bow at the end. I've heard good things about Charles Stross's writing so I'm not sure if this was not a good example or if he's just not my cup of tea.
Page count: 380p/17,425p ytd/326,120 lifetime
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